One of the easiest and most effective ways to determine your blood type is to have your doctor perform a test. A professional will draw blood and then perform two tests on the blood sample ...

"Seeing is believing," the founder of lab company Truvian told me. So I tried its tabletop blood testing device—which ...

Under a new federal directive, commercial labs are required to give patients copies of their laboratory data ... the clear-liquid part of the blood. The second test, without a tourniquet, produced ...

Thyroid blood tests are an important part of diagnosing ... are—including key hormones such as TSH and T4—the lab can determine which type of thyroid disease you have (hypothyroidism vs.

They staff the main laboratory in the Spain-Wallace building ... Services are mainly intended to prepare patients to be transfused (blood type and antibody screen). Other tests aid in the ...

In 1972, a blood test on a pregnant woman revealed a unique ... particularly in caring for patients with extremely rare blood types. The identification of the MAL system carries significant ...

The modern-day paternity test compares a baby’s DNA profile ... identifying specific phenotypes (in particular, specific blood types) in the child and using this information to either "rule ...

A 4-year old $6.8 million automated core laboratory (Clinical Chemistry, Coagulation and Hematology) located in the heart of the UAB Hospital performs millions of tests annually, in addition to tests ...

People with brain bleeds had nearly 7 times higher blood levels of a specific brain protein, called glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), than those who had strokes caused by clots in a study ...