PINNED AND READY FOR PATIENTS: Front row, L-R, Joydan S. Smith, Lasandra L. King, Heaven L. Weeks. Back row, L-R: Aaliyah Robinson, Nina E. Thames and Joshua D. Pope. Southern Regional Technical ...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A critical need in the nation’s health care system is prompting the Indian River State College to encourage more students to consider a career as a medical laboratory technologist.

Momoko Osuga is a medical laboratory technologist with a specialty in hematology, which is the study of blood and its components. She is one of the many laboratory professionals that play an important ...

Kirkwood Community College and the University of Iowa are partnering to offer a new medical laboratory sciences degree for students. (Photo courtesy of Kirkwood Community College via Iowa Capital ...