Blood tests can help a doctor diagnose a variety of health conditions, including infections, anemia, high cholesterol, vitamin deficiencies, organ failure, HIV, cancer, and diabetes. Doctors use ...

Doctors have found a simple way of testing for rheumatoid arthritis years before symptoms of the disease develop. Researchers at Umea University in Sweden selected 80 people who had been diagnosed ...

Most of the time, psoriasis is the first symptom of psoriatic arthritis. It causes silvery-white skin lesions called plaques, which may appear on your scalp, elbows, knees, and lower back. Eventually, ...

The Canadian firm’s SpineStat assay is used to detect autoantibodies to the protein biomarker 14-3-3eta to aid the diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis.

Discover the steps your doctor will take and the tests you can have to determine if you have rheumatoid arthritis.

Having psoriasis raises your risk of psoriatic arthritis — and rheumatoid arthritis, too. Make sure you can tell these two forms of arthritis apart.

Mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) is a blood test used to measure the average amount of hemoglobin in your red blood cells. Hemoglobin is the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen to tissues ...

Screening tests may help detect the disease. Blood tests are not yet available to screen for lung cancer, but this is something researchers are working towards. In this article, we look at how a ...

Systemic sclerosis, or scleroderma, causes the hardening of skin and connective tissues. Often, the disease harms other ...

How is rheumatoid arthritis diagnosed? RA diagnosis typically involves a physical exam, blood tests for RA like rheumatoid factor and anti-CCP, and imaging tests like X-rays or MRIs. RA can be ...

Stanford Medicine researchers have developed a blood test capable of detecting cancers, the ways cancer resists treatments and tissue injury caused by non-cancerous conditions. The new test ...