What Everyone Should Know about Lab Tests
A new study estimates that in the United States, some 251,000 deaths per year occur because of errors in medical care. This makes medical errors…
Lab Tests
Scanning and Printing Solutions to Expand Diagnostic Testing
It is hard to recall another time in this generation when diagnostic testing has been demanded at the same scale…
Saliva vs. Blood Diagnostics for Hormone Testing
Diagnostic testing has a long, bloody (i.e., blood-based) history, and when a physician orders a test, the usual response is to strap on a tourniquet, pull out a syringe, and extract a venous blood sample. For some tests, though, and, especially to measure levels of steroid hormones such as estrogen, testosterone, or cortisol, a blood …
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A Promising Way to Better Measure Testosterone
The sex hormone, testosterone, is important for both men and women, as well as other animals. While it is called a sex hormone, testosterone has…
A Global Commitment to Healthcare
Sunday’s opening plenary session featured a luminary of science, C. Ronald Kahn, MD, chief academic officer of the Joslin Diabetes Center and…
Folate Reference Interval Estimation
Folate functions as an enzyme co-factor within the one-carbon metabolic pathway, providing key metabolites required for DNA synthesis…