When it comes to maintaining health, it can be helpful to understand an optimal baseline for some matters. Learning a healthy weight range for your height, age, and gender, for instance, can be useful ...

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 ...

Even "normal" kidney test results may mask hidden risks if theyre unusually low for your age and sex, signaling higher chances of future disease.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 73-year-old female. A recent blood test returned an eGFR (estimated glomerular filtration rate) of 59. My physician’s nurse told me that the test was normal. When I asked her ...

Deb Hipp is a freelance health and medical writer and editor who lives in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a former investigative reporter with more than 25 years of experience as a journalist and writer ...

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 I do tests, treat patients and predict their outcomes is stuck in the 1990s ...

HARP Doctoral Research Fellow and Haematology Registrar, Queen Mary University of London Stephen Hibbs receives funding from the Wellcome Trust through a HARP doctoral research fellowship. Kari ...