An ABG test checks how well your lungs and kidneys work by measuring oxygen and carbon dioxide in your blood. This test helps doctors know if your body has an acid-base balance issue and if treatment ...

Worldwide Medical Supply has announced the FingerbPulse Fingertip Pulse Oximeter, a portable device that measures blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) and pulse rate from the fingertip, offering a practical ...

Researchers say even "low-normal" hemoglobin levels during pregnancy may increase the risk of complications for both mothers ...

Steffini Stalos, DO, FCAP, is a pathology and lab medicine physician. She is also the chief medical officer of the lab consultancy firm Blood Associates, LLC. Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration ...

Medically reviewed by Daniel Combs, MD Key Takeaways Getting less than six hours of sleep a night can increase your risk of ...

Many women feel very tired, lose a lot of hair, and can't focus, even when their haemoglobin report is normal. The real ...

Sanja Jelic, MD, is board-certified in sleep medicine, critical care medicine, pulmonary disease, and internal medicine. Hypercapnia happens when you have too much carbon dioxide (CO2) in your blood.

A 35-year-old school teacher recently walked into my clinic with a question that many people with diabetes, or at risk of diabetes, may find familiar. A few weeks earlier, she had undergone a routine ...

While I've been active my whole life, lifting weights was the one type of exercise I tended to skip, even though I knew the ...

Recent data published in NEJM demonstrates that CRISPR gene-editing therapy achieves complete clinical efficacy endpoints in ...

She also had a history of hip problems. Twenty years before, she had a hip replacement that stemmed from an injury she ...