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How Inherited Cancer Screening Can Help Patients Understand Their Predisposition
Assessing family history has always been an important component of understanding each patient’s individual risk for serious illness. And it’s been known for some time that certain types of cancer run in families. Thanks to more advanced testing techniques, we can now...
What Women Need to Know About Their Laboratory Testing
It’s important for all people to schedule regular wellness tests, in part to practice preventative healthcare. But there are certain, specific lab tests that women in particular need to consider. Here’s what you need to know about a few of the most common lab tests...
Staying Sober? How Toxicology Can Help You Achieve Your Goals
Entering recovery changes your life in profound (and sometimes challenging) ways. Although ultimately an independent journey, the path of sobriety is best traveled with plenty of help and support. One tool that may help you along the way is toxicology testing....
How Laboratories Can Continue to Support Women in STEM
The world of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) has made many remarkable strides in the last fifty years, including in the medical arena. Increasing the population of women working in these fields is one of these progressions. In 2019, the number...
How COVID Testing has Evolved in the Past Two Years
In February 2019, the novel coronavirus was yet undiscovered and unnamed. But on December 30, 2019, samples were collected in Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital from a patient with what the World Health Organization described as “pneumonia of unknown etiology,” and SARS-CoV-2 —...
How Toxicology Can Help Communities
Toxicology is a unique branch of science in which medicine, chemistry, biology, and pharmacology intersect. While toxicology lab screenings are often ordered by healthcare providers to test for toxins, alcohol, or drugs in a patient’s system, toxicologists also have...
How Influenza and Its Vaccine Affected History
Thanks to social distancing and other preventive measures implemented to reduce COVID-19 transmission, recent flu seasons have been much less active than those of previous years. But, influenza has been responsible for global pandemics in the past. While healthcare...
What a Diabetic Health Panel & Profile Can Do for You or Your Patients
Despite its prevalence, in 2018, more than 20% of patients who met laboratory criteria for diabetes were unaware that they had it. While receiving any type of chronic health diagnosis can be overwhelming for patients, being diagnosed with diabetes empowers them...
How to Deal with a Positive Result
Receiving any life-changing medical diagnosis can leave you feeling overwhelmed, whether you’ve been diagnosed with a chronic condition or cancer. Typically, your next best step after diagnosis will be to review the results with at least one medical...
Too Scared to Get Tested? Try This.
“Choosing whether you should be screened for a health condition isn’t always easy,” the National Institutes of Health admits. Sometimes tests may involve risk factors that can make the decision about early screening difficult to navigate. If you are uneasy about...