The start-up Function will send practically anyone to a lab for extensive medical testing, no physical required. Is that a ...

For women of reproductive age, pregnancy testing is another must before starting GLP-1 therapy. These medications are not recommended during pregnancy, making it essential to confirm pregnancy status ...

Routine blood tests are increasingly detecting elevated liver enzymes, which may signal liver stress or damage. While mild increases can be harmless, persistently high or rapidly rising levels, ...

December is a time when many of us drink more than normal – that extra glass of mulled wine after the carol concert, the office party involving shots and lurid cocktails, the annual meet-up with ...

(RTTNews) - Exact Sciences Corp. (EXAS), Friday announced the landmark clinical results from its ALTUS study, showing that the Oncoguard Liver blood test significantly outperforms ultrasound in ...

The FDA has halted clinical testing of an Intellia Therapeutics gene-editing therapy following a report that a patient in a Phase 3 study was hospitalized with liver complications. Intellia said the ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I'm a generally healthy 73-year-old man. I recently had blood work done and was incidentally noted to have high liver tests (ALT and AST). My doctor ordered a sonogram, which said that ...

Researchers in Sweden and Finland have created the CORE model, a simple blood test that predicts liver disease risk with striking accuracy. Unlike current methods, it works for the general population ...

Researchers from Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology found that educated children perform better on psychological tests measuring executive function abilities, challenging the accuracy ...

An AST test looks for blood levels of aspartate aminotransferase, an enzyme found mostly in the liver. Generally, the normal range of an AST test is 8 to 33 units per liter (U/L). Higher-than-average ...