Answer : We will provide you with a draw specimen kit so that your doctor or laboratory can draw one 10ml (red top) or two 5ml (red tops) tubes of blood.

Answer : You do not have to fast in order to do our test. However, you cannot take steroids or antihistamines for five days prior to blood draw. If you are fasting for another test, it will not have any effect on our results.

Most of the immunologic tests may be drawn at any time during the menstrual cycle with the exception of the Day 3 blood for ovarian reserve including Inhibin B, Follicle Stimulating Hormone, and estradiol. Blood should be drawn Monday through Thursday and shipped priority mail to Millenova Immunology Laboratories.

Usually it hurts only when the needle is breaking the skin, and only for a few moments. It helps not to look.

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times if you have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease; 5 times if you have no problems and 6 if you have mild memory problems. Approximately 57 milliliters (about 12 teaspoons) of blood will be drawn each time.

Once the EDTA (lavender top) blood sample has been drawn, it must be centrifuged within one hour to separate the red blood cells from the plasma. The plasma is then pipetted off the cells into a labeled transfer tube which is frozen in a non-defrosting freezer. Then the sample is transported on dry ice (supplied by SCL) to SCL for testing. No. Medicare and other insurances reimburse for tests performed as deemed "medically necessary" by the primary care physician.

Under most circumstances we collect your insurance or billing information and our billing department will process the charges to your insurance carrier. The general exception to this rule involves charges associated with KIT draws. For these specialized procedures payment is required at the time of service.

It’s best to postpone exercise or carrying heavy objects for the first hour or so after your venipuncture. You can remove your bandage at that point.

Five percent of all hospitalized patients receive blood transfusions. The average use of each of these patients is about three pints. Leading users are patients with cancer, heart disease, gastrointestinal disease, fractures and trauma, anemia, bone and joint abnormalities, organ transplants, and lung, liver and kidney disease.

Answer : We test using serum. Testing serum verses whole blood gives us the advantage maintaining the specimen for a longer period of time, and more accurate results.

No, Please remove soft contact lenses at least one week prior to surgery, and hard lenses two weeks prior to surgery.

There are times when the blood work the physician is requesting can be done at another clinic. Please ask the nurse or lab technician if you would like to have testing done somewhere other than our clinic. Realize however, that results may take longer through another lab.

Once the attending physician or midwife has completed the umbilical blood collection, your sample is either picked up by our local courier or by our Worldwide Shipper to be sent to our laboratory in Boston. If your blood is coming from a destination outside our local area, our Worldwide Shipper ships via priority overnight to ensure that your blood arrives within 72 hours of birth.

We help our patients on a first come, first served basis, and we always do our best to have you in and out within 20 minutes. However, our busiest time is from 8:00 am -10:00 am in the morning, so if possible, it is best to come at other times of the day. To help you with scheduling, we have several sites that are open later in the evening, or on the weekends, and we will soon have a site that takes appointments.