Metabolic health is sometimes used as a measurable indicator of how key systems in your body are functioning. And it's really ...

But new research suggests that a simple blood test may be able to predict osteoporosis risk, allowing doctors to intervene ...

Researchers at Leipzig University and the University of Gothenburg have developed a novel approach to assessing an individual ...

Because the risk of many conditions increases with age, doctors generally recommend more frequent lab testing as you get ...

A metabolic reset is not a scientific procedure. Instead, it involves various lifestyle and dietary changes that aim to improve a person’s metabolic health and potentially lose body weight. Weight ...

What Is a Comprehensive Metabolic Panel Test and Why Is It Done? The comprehensive metabolic panel (CMP) is a blood test that gives doctors information about the body’s fluid balance, levels of ...

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 ...

Much as anxiety commandeers thought processes— jump-starting bouts of worry, demanding hypervigilance, imposing a sense of danger—it is a physiologic state, a response to detection of threat somewhere ...

Getting your blood drawn usually takes less than three minutes. Blood test results can be ready from a few minutes to a few weeks, depending on the test. A blood draw is a medical procedure used to ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...

Over the past 50 years, rates of obesity and type-2 diabetes have soared, while sperm quality has plummeted. Driving these changes could be the increasing popularity of ultra-processed foods, which ...

In 1980, Ludwig and colleagues described the histologic features of a newly identified chronic liver condition referred to as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and noted that the majority of the ...