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 ...

Prepared by: G. Margaret Rourke, M.S., chief clinical chemist, and Lot B. Page, M.D., acting director, Chemical Laboratory; M. Althea King, chief technologist ...

If you've ever had a doctor order a blood test for you, chances are that they ran a complete blood count, or CBC. One of the most common blood tests in the world, CBC tests are run billions of times ...

How should I treat a patient who has signs and symptoms of hypothyroidism but normal lab values? The 36-year-old woman has mitral valve prolapse, menorrhagia, headache, fatigue, brittle nails, hair ...

Machine learning can pinpoint what’s truly ‘normal’ for each patient If you’ve ever had a doctor order a blood test for you, chances are that they ran a complete blood count, or CBC. One of the most ...

Many people commonly think of clinical tests as purely diagnostic. For example, a COVID-19 or a pregnancy test comes back as either positive or negative, telling you whether you have a particular ...