I reassured him and sent him to get another blood specimen drawn without a tourniquet. Why? Because I suspected that the ...

Because the risk of many conditions increases with age, doctors generally recommend more frequent lab testing as you get ...

Staying on top of your health starts with knowing what your blood is telling you. These tests help detect silent threats early. As adults, one thing that you should never joke about is your health.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blood tests are a quick and fairly easy way for medical professionals to detect serious health problems. Having your blood drawn ...

A routine blood test can predict how long cancer patients in palliative care will survive, researchers report at the ESMO Asia 2016 Congress in Singapore. "Cancer patients in palliative care want ...

A mean corpuscular volume (MCV) test is a blood test that measures the size and volume of your red blood cells. Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to other body parts. An MCV test is often ...

JAMES Wylie felt perfectly well – until a routine blood test sounded the alarm and revealed a cancer that could have killed ...

It follows a two-week pilot project alongside four surgeries which saw phlebotomy staff in the CDC take patients' bloods ...

False positive PSA results cause unneeded treatments. An expert panel has recommended against routine blood screening for prostate cancer, in a report published Wednesday in The BMJ. The panel, ...