While ordering medical tests is routine, a lack of communication often leaves anxious patients decoding portal results alone.

An HIV screening test checks to see if you’ve been infected with the HIV virus. About 1.2 million people in the U.S. have HIV. But about 1 in 7 people don’t know their HIV status, and about 40% of new ...

After PCI, there is no value to routine functional testing above and beyond standard care in high-risk patients, new data suggest. Doing such follow-up at 1 year had no impact on 2-year clinical ...

Monica da Silva, a critical care and cardiac anesthesiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was counseling a patient who had been in a car accident. She had suffered a broken bone and ...

Routine screening is limited to only a few cancer types. New research indicates that routine liquid biopsy testing (multi-cancer early detection testing) could substantially reduce late-stage cancer ...

Oct 24 (Reuters) - Laboratory operator Quest Diagnostics (DGX.N), opens new tab on Tuesday raised its full-year sales forecast after beating third-quarter expectations for revenue and profit, buoyed ...