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The numbers and reference ranges on lab results can be confusing to contextualize on your own. Your healthcare provider can ...

Medical laboratory testing is the heartbeat of medicine. It provides critical data for physicians to diagnose and treat disease, dating back thousands of years. Unfortunately, laboratory medicine as a ...

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Hoping to catch serious illnesses early, more Americans are ordering lab tests online, but their doctors don't know what to ...

BALTIMORE, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggests out-of-range lab test interpretations depend upon on how much experience a physician has accumulated. Johns Hopkins Children's Center researchers ...