Run-of-the mill? Middle of the road? Typical? The chance that you are correct is vanishingly small. If you're a clinician, like me, you get a LOT of medical questions. While we've all been asked to ...

If you’ve ever had a doctor order a blood test for you, chances are that they ran a complete blood count, or CBC. One of the most common blood tests in the world, CBC tests are run billions of times ...

Machine learning can pinpoint what’s truly ‘normal’ for each patient If you’ve ever had a doctor order a blood test for you, chances are that they ran a complete blood count, or CBC. One of the most ...

Many people commonly think of clinical tests as purely diagnostic. For example, a COVID-19 or a pregnancy test comes back as either positive or negative, telling you whether you have a particular ...

When the U.S. wrestler and actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was in his prime, his Body Mass Index (BMI) was around 33 kg/m², technically ‘obese’ by World Health Organization (WHO) standards. Yet no one ...

How should I treat a patient who has signs and symptoms of hypothyroidism but normal lab values? The 36-year-old woman has mitral valve prolapse, menorrhagia, headache, fatigue, brittle nails, hair ...