Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD Blood pressure is the amount of pressure that your blood exerts on the blood vessels in your body. As your heart beats, it contracts and relaxes, pushing ...

Heart worries can feel heavy on your mind. You might think bypass surgery is inevitable when your heart starts showing signs ...

Blood draws for several kinds of diagnostic tests require you to fast for several hours. Eating or drinking anything besides water can skew the results, leading to you needing to be retested. You may ...

Scientists at the University of East Anglia and Oxford Biodynamics have developed a high accuracy blood test to diagnose ...

Burlington-based Labcorp has launched the first blood-based test cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for ...

Unlike typical osteoarthritis, where cartilage in joints breaks down, rheumatoid arthritis results from the immune system ...

Could a simple blood test reveal how well someone is aging? A team of researchers led by Wolfram Weckwerth from the ...

In a landmark study of Hispanic and Latino adults, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have identified a link between self-reported cognitive decline and blood-based ...