For decades, Parkinson’s disease has been diagnosed only after unmistakable symptoms such as tremor, stiffness, and slowed ...

I reassured him and sent him to get another blood specimen drawn without a tourniquet. Why? Because I suspected that the tourniquet had been left in place so long that it caused the red blood cells, ...

Ever felt a little lost looking at your blood test results? You’re not alone. Blood tests sound like a foreign language with all those numbers and medical terms that make very little sense. But ...

Around four years ago, now 77-year-old John Gormly went for what was supposed to be a routine blood test. But the results were life-changing. The test suggested Gormly had colon cancer, which a ...

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 ...

A company is looking at blood as a possible diagnosis tool for mental illness. Blood tests can check for infections and high cholesterol, but currently, they can’t test for mental illness or pain. A ...

What Is an MCV Blood Test? MCV stands for mean corpuscular volume. An MCV blood test measures the average size of red blood cells, which have the critical job of carrying oxygen to your organs. If ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roche's Elecsys pTau181 test is the second blood-based biomarker test to receive FDA clearance for Alzheimer’s disease this year. ...

With two new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease approved in recent years, there’s growing hope for people at risk of the memory-robbing condition. But tests to detect the condition still lag behind.