Our health care system focuses on treating sick patients. Makes sense, of course, and thank goodness when we are sick, doctors come to the rescue. No doubt, our health care system is elite, by far the ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I have low thyroid levels. My blood tests say that the levels are OK, but I still have all the symptoms. I received biological hormones, which helped a lot, but yams bind to the ...

Your doctor will usually check your red blood cell count together with your other blood cell counts to look for conditions that cause low counts (anemia) or high counts. Many health conditions can ...

Having your blood drawn might not be much fun, but regular diagnostic tests of your blood can detect diseases early for treatment and give your doctor and medical providers critical information about ...

Dr. Omar Al-Heeti is an assistant professor of medicine at Southern Illinois University and practices internal medicine with a specialty in infectious diseases. He received his medical degree from the ...

Kidney function tests in the normal range can still signal risk if low for age and sex A Swedish study analyzed over 1.1 million adults using age- and sex-specific eGFR charts Adults below the 25th ...

The U.S. health care system primarily focuses on treating illnesses rather than preventing them. Many chronic diseases, like heart disease, develop without obvious symptoms until they are advanced. A ...