Your doctor says everything looks fine, but you still feel terrible. The problem might not be your health but how labs define “normal.” Understanding the difference between normal and optimal could ...

While simplification is becoming a popular buzzword, recently penned as the KISS principle—“Keep it Simple Stupid”, 1 in the pharmaceutical sector these days, the drive for simplicity is certainly not ...

Run-of-the mill? Middle of the road? Typical? The chance that you are correct is vanishingly small. If you're a clinician, like me, you get a LOT of medical questions. While we've all been asked to ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a new reader to your column; as such, I thought I would ask you a question that I have never seen asked or addressed in similar newspaper health columns. I am in my early 40s. I ...

Prepared by: G. Margaret Rourke, M.S., chief clinical chemist, and Lot B. Page, M.D., acting director, Chemical Laboratory; M. Althea King, chief technologist ...

Labs calculate normal by testing everyone who walks through the door, including patients with undiagnosed conditions and chronic diseases. The middle 95 percent becomes the reference range, whether ...