The start-up Function will send practically anyone to a lab for extensive medical testing, no physical required. Is that a ...

For women of reproductive age, pregnancy testing is another must before starting GLP-1 therapy. These medications are not recommended during pregnancy, making it essential to confirm pregnancy status ...

Routine blood tests are increasingly detecting elevated liver enzymes, which may signal liver stress or damage. While mild increases can be harmless, persistently high or rapidly rising levels, ...

As people age, their immune system function declines. T cell populations become smaller and can't react to pathogens as quickly, making people more susceptible to a variety of infections. To try to ...

HONOLULU (KHON) — What does a healthy liver look like? The University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine is offering free liver testing for the public to join their liver health study. “This ...

A new research paper was published in Volume 17, Issue 10 of Aging-US on October 3, 2025, titled "Growth hormone excess drives liver aging via increased glycation stress." In this study, led by first ...

(RTTNews) - Exact Sciences Corp. (EXAS), Friday announced the landmark clinical results from its ALTUS study, showing that the Oncoguard Liver blood test significantly outperforms ultrasound in ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I'm a generally healthy 73-year-old man. I recently had blood work done and was incidentally noted to have high liver tests (ALT and AST). My doctor ordered a sonogram, which said that ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in the scientific journal The BMJ, shows how a simple blood analysis can predict the risk of developing severe liver disease. The method may already ...

An AST test looks for blood levels of aspartate aminotransferase, an enzyme found mostly in the liver. Generally, the normal range of an AST test is 8 to 33 units per liter (U/L). Higher-than-average ...