Children living with obesity but showing no signs of metabolic complications still have a significantly increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and abnormal blood lipid ...

Dr. Omar Al-Heeti is an assistant professor of medicine at Southern Illinois University and practices internal medicine with a specialty in infectious diseases. He received his medical degree from the ...

A routine blood report often brings relief. Numbers fall within range, the doctor nods, and life moves on. Yet, many people ...

A surprising number of people feel off-balance even when medical evaluations indicate they're healthy. Common feelings of ...

Kidney function tests in the normal range can still signal risk if low for age and sex A Swedish study analyzed over 1.1 million adults using age- and sex-specific eGFR charts Adults below the 25th ...

Everybody wants a pregnancy test: They want something that when it’s positive, the woman is always pregnant, and when it’s negative, the woman is never pregnant. They want a test which tells them this ...

It's a blood test that measures the amount of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) in your body. G6PD is an enzyme that helps your red blood cells work properly. If your G6PD level is too low, you ...