DANVILLE, PA. – Geisinger Medical Center's microbiology lab is the first in the U.S. to use a new automatic instrument that improves the quality and efficiency of specimen planting and streaking and ...

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Diagnostics, particularly blood cultures, play a key role in sepsis diagnosis. Best practices are well-known for collection, transport, and processing of blood cultures, but historically relatively ...

Blood samples are accepted from 7 am Monday through 11 am Friday. For pediatric patients, draw requirements are as follows. They are the minimum sample volumes required. These are guidelines for ...

In a hallway on the third floor of Lancaster General Hospital is a window marked “Laboratory Specimen Receiving.” Tucked away behind it is one of the most important facilities in Lancaster County ...

The New Hampshire Public Health Laboratories is ramping up testing for the COVID-19 strain of coronavirus.>> Download the FREE WMUR appTwo cases of the potentially deadly strain of virus have been ...