Every clinician knows the moment: a patient messages in a panic because their hemoglobin is 11.9 instead of 12.0, or their mean platelet volume (MPV) is 7.4 instead of 7.5. The value is barely outside ...

When it comes to lab tests, interpreting the clinical importance of an out-of-range result depends on how much experience a physician has, suggests research from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.

After the first 6 months of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) use in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), most very abnormal results newly seen in long-term routine laboratory ...

Answer: D. Her abnormal laboratory values could be the result of small bowel bacterial overgrowth or could be a lack of consistency taking her vitamins. Most patients with small bowel bacterial ...