Doctors use blood patch procedures to treat spinal headaches, rare events that may happen after epidurals or other medical procedures involving the spine. In a blood patch your own blood is injected ...

A phlebotomist is a medical professional who draws your blood and collects samples for laboratory tests, transfusions, research, or blood donations. Phlebotomists are medical professionals who draw ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I've never had my blood drawn before, but I have to go in for testing soon. Honestly, I'm pretty nervous about it. What can I expect? ANSWER: It can be a little nerve-wracking at ...

In honor of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Awareness Month, Abraham Homer, MS, the gaming technology supervisor and creative technologist at Children's Hospital Colorado, shared how virtual reality ...

Blood draws are one of the most common invasive medical procedures in the world, yet little has changed about how we do them: for centuries, it’s involved one human sticking another with a needle – ...