The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it has not fundamentally evolved since then. You go in, sit down, they put a tourniquet on your arm, stick you with a needle, take these tubes and tubes of blood. Elizabeth Holmes 1960sarmart share on social
What I really want out of life is to discover something new: something mankind didn't know was possible to do. Elizabeth Holmes discoverlifemankind Change image and share on social
I definitely am afraid of needles. It's the only thing that actually scares me. Elizabeth Holmes afraidneedlescare Change image and share on social
At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world. Elizabeth Holmes agebeginbuild Change image and share on social
We know more about our credit cards than we know about our bodies. Elizabeth Holmes bodycardcredit Change image and share on social
The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right. Elizabeth Holmes basichealthhuman Change image and share on social
Thernos 1.0 is an external point-of-care BlackBerry. Elizabeth Holmes blackberrycareexternal Change image and share on social
I really believe that if we were from another planet, and we sat down to put our heads together on torture experiments, the concept of sticking a needle into someone and sucking their blood out would probably qualify as a pretty good one. Elizabeth Holmes bloodconceptexperiment share on social
Today, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue. Elizabeth Holmes bloodhealthidentify Change image and share on social
It drives me crazy when people talk about the scale as an indicator of health, because your weight doesn't tell you what's going on at a biochemical level. Elizabeth Holmes biochemicalcrazydrive Change image and share on social