You could be missing out on some crucial information about your cardiovascular health that only this specific test can give ...

Because the risk of many conditions increases with age, doctors generally recommend more frequent lab testing as you get ...

Getting an endometriosis diagnosis is often costly, time-consuming and invasive. Now, it could be as easy as a simple blood ...

An international trial involving 1,000 volunteers will aim to detect biomarkers associated with the condition.

What Is a RDW Blood Test? An RDW blood test – also known as a red blood cell distribution width blood test – is a measure of the difference in your red blood cells’ size and volume. RDW is one part of ...

The test may make it easier to identify whether people with memory and thinking problems have Alzheimer’s or not. By Pam Belluck A blood test that can help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease has received ...

Blood draws for several kinds of diagnostic tests require you to fast for several hours. Eating or drinking anything besides water can skew the results, leading to you needing to be retested. You may ...

But new research suggests that a simple blood test may be able to predict osteoporosis risk, allowing doctors to intervene ...

I reassured him and sent him to get another blood specimen drawn without a tourniquet. Why? Because I suspected that the ...

Cheap blood tests that could spot Alzheimer’s early are set to be given to more than a thousand adults in an effort to ...

Colonoscopy is the gold standard for detecting colon cancer, but every year about 50 million people in the U.S. who qualify for a colonoscopy don't get it done, according to the American Cancer ...