Category: Lab Tests

This post contains affiliate links. Urine pregnancy tests are very popular and well known among women. In fact, urine pregnancy tests are done more often than blood pregnancy tests for many...

There are options for those wanting to do a pregnancy test. There is the do-at-home urine test kits that are 97 to 99% accurate according to their manufacturers or the hCG blood tests that are done...

Most tests done in the laboratory are going to be quantitative. Qualitative tests are common but the majority of tests requested will be the ones that give a numerical answer. That is because...

Blood test results can change in a month. In fact, blood test results can change in a week. A month is a lot of time for a lab test result to change and be different from a previous one. There...

Sometimes, you may be called by the doctor's office or laboratory to come back and do a blood test. When that happens, there is nothing to worry about. There are so many reasons why the laboratory or...

While there are specific tests that require a person to fast, most tests that you will do don't require fasting. In fact, only a few tests require fasting really. Because eating will affect certain...