also called a sedimentation rate test or sed rate test, measures how quickly red blood cells sink to the bottom of a test tube. A high rate of settlement indicates high levels of inflammation.
A first-of-its-kind blood test that uses biomarkers to distinguish bipolar disorder from depression could slash the time it ...
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What Is a Phosphate Blood Test? A phosphate test measures the amount of phosphate in your blood. Phosphate is what you get when you combine the mineral phosphorus with oxygen. When you eat certain ...
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With heart attacks, every second counts. A new blood test diagnoses them in minutes rather than hours and could be adapted as a tool for first responders and people at home. "Heart attacks require ...
It is an industry that was supposed to be cleaned up, after the turn-of-the-millennium­ notoriety surrounding so-called blood or conflict ­diamonds—precious stones mined in African war zones ...
Charles Baxter’s novel charges along so boisterously that it’s easy to forget the author is batting around some of the weightiest concerns of human experience.
Some researchers seek to establish a single abnormal result on a set of biomarker-based tests as sufficient to diagnose the ...
But in July, Sqn Ldr Peters, 93, was told he was not entitled to wear the Nuclear Test Medal ... Peters said: “It’s about bloody time. I’m chuffed to blazes but annoyed it’s taken so ...
But Blood Test, a new novel by Charles Baxter, perhaps spans divisions because it draws upon a tried-and-true comic predicament: namely, the little guy who's forced to punch above his weight with ...