Run-of-the mill? Middle of the road? Typical? The chance that you are correct is vanishingly small. If you're a clinician, like me, you get a LOT of medical questions. While we've all been asked to ...

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 ...

Medical laboratory testing is the heartbeat of medicine. It provides critical data for physicians to diagnose and treat disease, dating back thousands of years. Unfortunately, laboratory medicine as a ...

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 ...

Dr. Miller: How worried do you need to be when you receive your lab results in the mail or online before your physician's had a chance to talk to you about them? I'm Dr. Tom Miller and we're going to ...

A differential blood test enables a doctor to determine how many white blood cells are in the body. There are five types of white blood cell, and the test also shows how many of each type are present.

The RA latex turbid test helps diagnose rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other autoimmune diseases by detecting rheumatoid factor (RF) in the blood. A higher-than-normal result on the RA latex turbid ...