Five routine tests provide limited clinical value, and evidence-based alternatives can better guide diagnosis, risk for ...

In medicine, a person’s blood-test results are compared with the average range in a population. But results are highly individual and tightly regulated around a person’s own stable values. Changes to ...

As healthcare organizations face greater demand for streamlined services and delivering value-based care, effective partnerships between care entities have become essential. Twenty-five years ago, ...

A Bay Area biotech company is behind a potentially groundbreaking blood test that promises to be a game-changer in cancer ...

The properties of the blood and the ease of its retrieval make it a useful source for doctors to analyze to measure specific features of homeostasis within patients. This allows for accurate diagnosis ...

When it comes to lab tests, interpreting the clinical importance of an out-of-range result depends on how much experience a physician has, suggests research from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.

Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Public Health, Colorado State University Your blood serves numerous roles to maintain your health. To carry out these ...

The usual diagnostic tests may simply be too sensitive and too slow to contain the spread of the virus. By Apoorva Mandavilli Some of the nation’s leading public health experts are raising a new ...