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Medical testing
Medical tests are performed to detect or diagnose a health issue, determine an appropriate treatment plan, confirm that a therapeutic intervention is working as intended, or monitor the progression of a condition. Medical tests can vary from evaluating bodily specimens, such as blood or urine, to invasive examinations, including biopsies or endoscopies. While most medical testing requires a healthcare professional, some test, such as monitoring blood glucose levels, can be administered by the individual patient in an outpatient setting.
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NOV 10, 2015Videos
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NOV 10, 2015
Videos
In Greek mythology, a chimera is a fire-breathing beast made up of part lion, part goat, and part snake. Of course a tra
...
NOV 09, 2015
Health & Medicine
Imagine this: Your child is at football practice afterschool when he collides head-on with another teammate. He is stunn
...
NOV 05, 2015
Clinical & Molecular DX
With an estimated value at $9 billion, Theranos is, by all rights, not an average multi-billion dollar biotech startup.
...
NOV 04, 2015
Neuroscience
Video games, online role-playing games and even just some of the board game apps on a smartphone are played by millions
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 30, 2015
Microbiology
Staphylococcus aureus is notorious for forming biofilms on indwelling medical devices (things like urinary and vascular
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
OCT 29, 2015
Neuroscience
The saying “You are what you eat” is proving pretty accurate in regards to diet and brain health. Two studie
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 19, 2015
Neuroscience
While doctors, scientists and medical researchers have good imaging tools to see blood, bones and muscle, seeing what ha
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 16, 2015
Microbiology
This isn’t the first time I’ve written about Ebola (and it probably won’t be the last). Recently
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
SEP 28, 2015
Neuroscience
Video games can get a bad rap when the talk turns to how much time children spend on them. Everything from AD/HD to chil
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 27, 2015
Neuroscience
Nearly two million Americans, aged 12 or older, either abused or were dependent on opioids in 2013, according to the Cen
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 23, 2015
Neuroscience
The diagnosis of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder is a controversial one. Rates of children being diagnosed with
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 15, 2015
Immunology
Today, a review from Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research brought to
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 13, 2015
Cancer
Three researchers won prestigious medical awards for a new approach to treating cancer and insights into how creatures d
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 13, 2015
Videos
Imagine being able to scan your plate of food at a restaurant with your smart phone and know instantly what exactly was
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
SEP 10, 2015
Cancer
A drug-like molecule could prove valuable in cancer research with the potential of developing a new pharmaceutical.
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 10, 2015
Cancer
Should cost be a concern in cancer testing? Female carriers of mutated BRCA genes have a significantly higher risk for d
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 02, 2015
Microbiology
Vitamin and mineral deficiency is a significant global health problem. Nearly 18% of the global population is defi
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
AUG 25, 2015
Cancer
“Second cancers are on the rise,” according to an article by Marilynn Marchione, AP medical writer, that app
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 22, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
UC San Francisco has launched the UCSF Center for Next-Gen Precision Medicine Diagnostics, a dedicated research center f
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 20, 2015
Microbiology
While most E. coli living in the intestine of people and animals are actually beneficial, some can cause severe illness.
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
AUG 13, 2015
Cannabis Sciences
You might have been told that cannabis makes you hungry. A team of researchers is finding a way to use it in a weight lo
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 05, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
While skeletal muscle is abundant in the human body, it been difficult for researchers to derive muscle cells from precu
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 01, 2015
Health & Medicine
Ebola outbreaks across the globe have swept the media so hard that people are panicking about the possibility of future
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 13, 2015
Neuroscience
A group of scientists from various organizations has come together to help people to communicate, bringing together neur
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider