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Worldwide Medical Supply has announced the FingerbPulse Fingertip Pulse Oximeter, a portable device that measures blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) and pulse rate from the fingertip, offering a practical ...

Steffini Stalos, DO, is board-certified in pathology and lab medicine. She is currently Chief Medical Officer of Blood Associates, a lab consultancy firm. A carbon dioxide (CO2) blood test measures ...

When injected into mice with retinal disease, the special retinal blood cells integrated into the damaged tissue to ...

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A 35-year-old school teacher recently walked into my clinic with a question that many people with diabetes, or at risk of diabetes, may find familiar. A few weeks earlier, she had undergone a routine ...

While I've been active my whole life, lifting weights was the one type of exercise I tended to skip, even though I knew the ...