Interior Health says it is trying to support, not undermine, lab assistants with a new program that provides on-the-job training for new healthcare workers who draw blood. The health authority’s ...

A medical lab assistant, left, works at Royal Jubilee Hospital. In response to a shortage of medical lab assistants, the province is providing one-time funding of up to $228,720 for Camosun College s ...

A lab technician at the Health Sciences says moving the Medical Laboratory Assistant training program to Grand Falls-Windsor has had a huge impact on overtime worked in her department. Ashley Carew ...

From the lab assistants that take samples to the laboratory technologists that analyze them, many of the workers who staff Canada’s labs are in short supply. The impacts of that national shortage of ...