From CBC to CMP and beyond, blood test panels provide essential information to health practitioners. angelp/iStock via Getty Images Plus Your blood serves numerous roles to maintain your health. To ...

Brad Reisfeld is a professor of chemical and biological engineering, biomedical engineering, and public health at Colorado State University. Your blood serves numerous roles to maintain your health.

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Your blood serves numerous roles to maintain your health. To carry out these functions, blood contains a multitude of components, including ...

Your blood serves numerous roles in maintaining your health. To carry out these functions, blood contains a multitude of components, including red blood cells that transport oxygen, nutrients, and ...

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 ...

Blood test results can be overwhelming to digest, complete with medical jargon and numerical values that may not mean much without an accompanying explanation. But to take charge of your health and ...

The way we shop, do our banking, watch TV and listen to music is unrecognisable from 30 years ago – yet as a doctor, the way ...

Mark Gurarie is a writer covering health topics, technology, music, books, and culture. He also teaches health science and research writing at George Washington University's School of Medical and ...

Mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) is a measure of the average amount of hemoglobin in the red blood cells (RBCs). The hemoglobin in red blood cells picks up oxygen in the lungs and delivers it to all ...

What Is an MCHC Blood Test? A mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) blood test measures the amount of a protein called hemoglobin in your red blood cells. It’s one of many measurements ...

What Is a RDW Blood Test? An RDW blood test – also known as a red blood cell distribution width blood test – is a measure of the difference in your red blood cells’ size and volume. RDW is one part of ...

Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Public Health, Colorado State University Your blood serves numerous roles to maintain your health. To carry out these ...