AUSTIN, Texas — Drivers suspected of driving while intoxicated in Austin may face a different process than in most other places. The Austin Police Department (APD) recently launched a program that has ...

Jail nurses won’t do it, and Austin-Travis County EMS medics are looking to get out of it. So now, people arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated could have their blood drawn at the jail by ...

While many other areas in the practice of medicine have been augmented by increasingly sophisticated technology, phlebotomy – the practice of drawing blood for laboratory analysis – has remained ...

YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) – Pennsylvania is now joining 22 other states by offering training for police officers to become phlebotomists. Officials say about 40,000 people in Pennsylvania are arrested ...

MONTVILLE, CT (WFSB) - Police officers in one Connecticut community are learning how to become phlebotomists. The pilot program has been gaining popularity and some say it is helpful when it comes to ...

The practice of drawing blood has changed very little over the decades. It looks about the same now as it did 50 years ago. That process, however, may be about to get a modern makeover. Several health ...

MADISON (WKBT) -- Beginning next year, Wisconsin police officers could start drawing blood for alcohol and drug arrests. They would take over for medical workers who are currently assigned the task.

When Ligonier Valley police Officer Shawn Knepper makes a traffic stop, he may end up taking the driver’s blood as well as his or her name, age and license number. Knepper recently became one of 19 ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – The Austin Police Department is piloting a program where some police officers are drawing blood from people suspected of driving under the influence instead of emergency medical ...