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

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

InvestigateTV+ examines a breakthrough test doctors say helps diagnose Alzheimer’s disease and could slow progression. Then, ...

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

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 ...

What Is an MCHC Blood Test? A mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) blood test measures the amount of a protein called hemoglobin in your red blood cells. It’s one of many measurements ...

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 ...

Whoop’s test, in comparison, starts at $349 for two per year, and unlike with Oura, you can upload tests done through your doctor’s office to the Whoop app for free. Whoop’s Advanced Labs costs more ...

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 ...

Blood test results can be overwhelming to digest, complete with medical jargon and numerical values that may not mean much without an accompanying explanation. But to take charge of your health and ...