Every clinician knows the moment: a patient messages in a panic because their hemoglobin is 11.9 instead of 12.0, or their mean platelet volume (MPV) is 7.4 instead of 7.5. The value is barely outside ...

When it comes to lab tests, interpreting the clinical importance of an out-of-range result depends on how much experience a physician has, suggests research from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.

For patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) using disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), long-term routine laboratory toxicity monitoring (lt-RLTM) indicates that most very abnormal ...

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 ...

Patients across the United States now receive lab results on their phones and patient portals the same day those results are ...

Answer: D. Her abnormal laboratory values could be the result of small bowel bacterial overgrowth or could be a lack of consistency taking her vitamins. Most patients with small bowel bacterial ...