Philhealth CEO and President Dr. Edwin Mercado (3rd from left) with President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr and Department of ...

You can’t turn on the TV without seeing ads for glucose-lowering GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. A1C numbers are cocktail-party chatter. Helpful? Sure. But almost nobody knows the chemistry ...

The HbA1c test is widely recognised as a key tool for checking how well diabetes is controlled. This test provides an average of blood sugar levels over the past three months, similar to a report card ...

For the first time, nonprofit Vitalant is offering blood donors an extra check on their health while they help save and improve the lives of hospital patients, according to a news release. All who ...

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) have been working on a test procedure for grid-forming inverters. The GFM Benchmark project has seen Fraunhofer work with four ...

What Is a CA-125 Blood Test? Cancer antigen 125 (CA-125) is a protein found in ovarian cancer cells. A CA-125 blood test measures the amount of cancer antigen 125 in the bloodstream. The protein is ...

Thousands of patients were misdiagnosed with diabetes and wrongly put on medication due to NHS blood test mistakes. At least 55,000 people will need further tests after errors were found in machines ...

Jane Kim, MD, is currently a medical editor and writer. She also consults on digital content for physician medical education. You might need insulin if your A1C test result is 6.5% or higher. The ...

Thousands of people may have been mistakenly diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes due to an error with testing machines. At least 55,000 people will need further blood ...

Errors by machines used to diagnose diabetes mean at least 55,000 people in England will need further blood tests, a BBC investigation has discovered. Some patients have been wrongly diagnosed with ...

You can’t sweet-talk your way out of this devastating disease. A startling new study finds that an estimated 44% of people 15 and older with diabetes are unaware they have the chronic condition, which ...

At least 55,000 people are set to undergo further blood tests after errors were found in machines used for diagnosing diabetes. NHS England has revealed that up to 10% of its laboratories across the ...