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 ...

Luxembourg’s civil aviation authority, the DAC, granted experimental licenses to the consortium last autumn and again in ...

Significance Human blood provides a rich source of information about metabolites that reflects individual differences in health, disease, diet, and lifestyle. The coefficient of variation for human ...

Oxytocin injected into a vein may sometimes cause serious side effects, such as a sudden drop in blood pressure, especially when given rapidly in a small amount of solution (undiluted). What evidence ...

Research shows that small extracellular vesicles shed by donor heart cells and circulating T cells provide a precise readout ...

Following a heart transplant, patients must undergo surgical biopsies so that clinicians can monitor for signs of organ rejection. A new study shows the promise of a biomarker that could allow doctors ...

DETROIT (AP) — A yearslong effort to challenge Michigan’s practice of storing millions of dried blood samples from newborn babies has been turned upside down by a federal appeals court, which threw ...

DNA evidence ties Travis Decker to his daughters' murder scene in the Cascades. Manhunt approaches its second month as US Marshals pursue investigation.

Named “Gwada negative,” it originated from a blood sample taken 15 years ago.

Up-and-coming Alzheimer’s blood tests may soon be used for people with Down’s syndrome. In a longitudinal biomarker study of adults with three copies of chromosome 21, investigators from the Alzheimer ...

After years of litigation, Michigan has won an appeal in a case that centers on the storage and handling of millions of dried blood samples from newborns.