Because the risk of many conditions increases with age, doctors generally recommend more frequent lab testing as you get older. This is because many health risks increase with age, and early detection ...

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 ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. A snapshot of my Function Health test results Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. The last time I went to the doctor, I lived in a different ...

What Is an MCV Blood Test? MCV stands for mean corpuscular volume. An MCV blood test measures the average size of red blood cells, which have the critical job of carrying oxygen to your organs. If ...

A simple blood test can be a novel way to figure out whether cancer treatment will work. Doctors at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology developed a blood test to screen cancer patients and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grail's Galleri test screens for more than 50 different types of cancer from a single blood draw. (Getty Images) (Getty Images) If ...

You may need an MPV test if you show symptoms that suggest an issue with your platelet size or number. An MPV test involves drawing a blood sample from a vein and typically takes less than five ...