Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD A mean platelet volume (MPV) test measures the average size of platelets in your blood. Platelets are blood cells that your bone marrow makes. Healthy platelets ...

Titer tests are what's used "to help you determine if you currently have immunity to certain diseases due to past infection or vaccination,” says Dr. Alison Mitzner, a New York board-certified ...

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Research indicates that high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) is a powerful predictor of heart attack risk, especially ...

A new study has found that a simple blood test may be a powerful way to detect early signs of Alzheimer’s disease, even in ...

Protect your family and garden after a wildfire. Learn how and where to get your soil tested for lead, arsenic, and other ...

By this time next year, the state will require lead testing for all children statewide, the Illinois Department of Public Health says.

A study reveals that doing squats or walking briefly every 45 minutes reduces sugar spikes more than walking for 30 minutes ...

Quest will offer the first FDA-approved blood test to help detect Alzheimer’s-related amyloid pathology in patients with ...

The company's next-generation sequencing-based test is used to aid the detection of cancers in patients with indeterminate lesions.

With half a million people having already received multi-cancer early detection (MCED) screening, patients are and will continue to be asking about these blood tests during their visits, physicians ...

A case in which more than 200 kindergarten students in northwestern China were found to have abnormal blood lead levels is ...