One easy way to check kidney health at home is with urine test strips. You simply dip the strip into a urine sample, and it ...

To check your blood sugar levels at home, you can use a glucose meter or a continuous glucose monitor. Here's what you should know about both devices.

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Monitoring your blood pressure at home can help you and your doctor identify trends in readings. (Getty Creative) Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the U.S., ...

Knowing your blood type is critical during emergency health situations. Knowing your blood type is crucial medical information, but unless you've given blood before you might not be sure what yours is ...

With one plasma p-tau217 test being approved just last May by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and others likely to follow suit this year, this marker is poised to change the way clinicians ...

Professor Vipul Bansal, who leads the project at RMIT’s NanoBioSensing Facility, said the new test could be cheaper and ...

Macy Meyer is a North Carolina native who graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a BA in English and a second BA in Journalism. Macy is a Writer on the CNET How-To team, covering a variety of topics, ...

Blood type is a personal medical detail that doesn't come up much in casual conversation or even at doctor's visits, so I never really thought much about mine until it was required when filling out a ...