Picture this: You've just finished your annual doctor's appointment. You feel good, and the routine tests your doctor ...

Mohana Ravindranath is a freelance health, science, and tech journalist and a 2025 Association for Health Care Journalists fellow. She was previously a Bay Area health tech correspondent for STAT.

The need for understandable and transparent pricing for medical services in the U.S. has increased in urgency with the continuing rise of out-of-pocket healthcare costs. Americans are delaying ...

One of the most basic aspects of health care reform is getting consumers to take more responsibility for their own wellness and disease prevention. In early May, a company called MyMedLab launched a ...

As more consumers order up lab tests and genetic screenings, experts say it could impact insurance, loans, and employment decisions.

Genetic testing that reveals potential cancer risks or other maladies with no regulatory oversight is among the targets of the agency’s proposed review. By Christina Jewett The Food and Drug ...

The Food and Drug Administration’s plan to expand oversight of laboratory-developed tests threatens to prevent or delay patient access to innovative diagnostics, industry groups warned in ...

The UC Santa Cruz Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory (CCDL) has received its CLIA certificate of registration from the California Department of Public Health, which clears the way for it to begin ...

Point-of-care testing at triage can help triage patients with high-risk emergency department complaints, according to a study in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. Researchers conducted an ...

Despite its popularity, biotin lacks strong evidence for hair regrowth, and safer alternatives like minoxidil are recommended ...