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 ...

Plasma proteomics reveals that the biological ages of key organs, especially the brain and immune system, strongly predict ...

The 3 blood tests your doctor never orders but should and these overlooked lab tests could reveal critical health issues ...

A 69-year-old woman was referred to the retina service for abnormal posterior segment findings.The patient’s medical history ...

Dr. Soma Mandal, a board-certified internist at Summit Health in New Providence, New Jersey, says that getting a CBC test is ...

Of 289 patients with bacteremia, 52% had normal WBC count and 17% had neither WBC elevation nor fever. Despite multiple studies showing that a normal white blood cell (WBC) count does not exclude ...

Even among individuals with normal glucose tolerance, the group with blood glucose levels below 170 mg/dL one hour post-glucose load (shown in blue) had a significantly higher survival rate.

We studied one of the most widely performed blood tests in primary care, the total white cell count. Despite the ubiquity of this test, it is unclear how strongly a clinically recorded ‘normal’ value ...

Your body will let you know if it’s not functioning properly, especially when it comes to your red blood cell count levels.

Conclusion Various exercise training modes improve resting blood pressure, particularly isometric exercise. The results of this analysis should inform future exercise guideline recommendations for the ...