The practice of drawing blood has changed very little over the decades. It looks about the same now as it did 50 years ago.

Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine is collaborating with Netherlands-based medical robotics company Vitestro to test whether ...

Northwestern Medicine will be part of a multiyear, multicenter clinical trial to validate the performance and safety of the device, called Aletta, as a potential "scalable solution for U.S. hospital ...

Vitestro's blood drawing (phlebotomy ... to prior research can have a failure rate of 27% in people without visible veins and up to 60% in challenging patients, such as those who are emaciated.

Venous reflux disease (VRD) occurs when veins do not properly return blood to the heart. Health experts refer to it as chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). VRD most commonly affects the legs and ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Nobody likes needles, or at least they shouldn’t, so getting your blood drawn isn’t always an easy ordeal. For some of us, it’s easy to pass out and cause a scene ...

Unlike with a traditional blood draw, the patient does not see the needle go into the arm nor the tubes of blood. The process takes about two minutes and has a 95% success rate on the first attempt.

to make the blood draw easier. The Aletta then uses an infrared light to locate the veins. The device sprays the patient’s arm with alcohol to clean it, and an AI-driven doppler ultrasound probe ...