One of the biggest mistakes patients can make is immediately searching abnormal results online. Internet searches often lead ...

Your doctor says everything looks fine, but you still feel terrible. The problem might not be your health but how labs define “normal.” Understanding the difference between normal and optimal could ...

Lab results can be confusing — and sometimes misleading. The way electronic health records flag ‘abnormal’ values often sparks unnecessary worry, even when numbers are only slightly outside the ...

Dr. Cedrek McFadden, a board-certified colorectal and general surgeon with over 20 years of clinical experience at Prisma ...

The sex of an individual is typically assigned at birth based on the appearance of the external genitalia. Chromosomal testing can determine whether a person is biologically male (1 X chromosome and 1 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the U.S. wrestler and actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was in his prime, his Body Mass Index (BMI) was around 33 kg/m², technically ‘obese’ by World Health Organization (WHO) standards. Yet no one ...