But some of those tests are now clouded in confusion after the maker of the most popular blood alcohol test tubes, BD, recalled a lot of 247,000 tubes in 2019 because of concerns that a small ...

When she asked about it, her doctor's office told her they only ran tests for the tumor markers because of a nationwide shortage of blood tubes. "I have no words. I’m horrified," Inman said.

July 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an alert on Wednesday to laboratories and healthcare providers of a shortage of Becton Dickinson' (BDX.N) blood test tubes used in ...

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Last July, after sodium citrate tubes became harder to find—due to the widespread need to monitor patients with COVID-19 for blood clots and coagulation complications—the FDA granted an ...