Needle-free devices like TAP and Tasso offer painless blood collection, a benefit for the squeamish. These tests face challenges with sample size and accuracy compared to traditional methods. This ...

Patients at Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health's hospitals and clinics across Northern California could soon have their blood drawn a little differently. Instead of sticking a patient with a ...

Afraid of needles? Soon you may have one less thing to fear. Two companies, Intermountain Healthcare and Velano Vascular, are exploring new tech that could keep people from feeling like pin-cushions ...

A new startup, sponsored by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has developed a new piece of medical tech that can draw blood, painlessly, without breaking the skin. The ...

UH is the first health system in Ohio to use this device for patients and is helping to pioneer a bold national movement to adopt a more humane standard of care for blood draws. “As an institution, we ...

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Co.) announced on July 20 that through its recent acquisition of Velano Vascular it has taken a step forward in transforming the patient experience through a vision of a “One ...

DERBY, Conn. (WTNH) – It’s a routine hospital procedure which most in-patients undergo repeatedly. Joan Raydin spent three days in the intensive care unit at Griffin Hospital. Getting blood drawn was ...

First your personal information, now your blood: Google has patented a "Needle-Free Blood Draw," which holds appeal for diabetes patients who have to test their blood glucose levels on a regular basis ...