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.
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 ...
An at-home endometriosis test under development at the University of Cincinnati could spare patients years of invasive ...
By using a mobile app and patient portal called MyQuest, “adult users can prompt the tool to define test names and medical terminology from their results reports, as well as translate the meaning of ...
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 ...
Throughout our days, through the course of our interactions with patients and the follow-up period in between visits, we are constantly faced with data that we need to address: findings on history, ...
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 ...
Ambient temperature influences the results of some of the most used laboratory tests, and these distortions likely affect medical decision making, such as whether to prescribe medications, researchers ...
If the measure becomes law, it would require a 72-hour waiting period for test lab results relating to malignant cancers or ...