An update of news releases from Phlebotics and other firms that relate to the need for chemical measures over time, whether at the bedside or in the central clinical laboratory. We salute those firms which have advanced therapeutic drug monitoring, electrolytes, blood gases, glucose, lactate and other time dependent markers of patient status. Phlebotics gets the sample. Many extant technologies can provide the data. Year by year the required sample volumes go down along with the time to a result and a caregiver decision.