BOSTON (CBS) -- With rising costs for health care and higher deductibles, many patients are looking for ways to save money. A growing trend is to order your own lab tests online. After retiring from ...

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 goal of this study was to investigate patients' emotional reactions to viewing lab test results online and the actions they take after they view their results. We discovered that satisfaction, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. ELEANOR HALL: Every day, doctors order lab tests to help diagnose illnesses, but these tests can be a ...

Does your diet meet your nutritional needs? The test for that is on sale. Want to know if you’re positive for HIV? Quest Diagnostics will tell you for $79. Concerned you have herpes? That test costs ...

One of the most rapidly accelerating health trends today is direct-to-consumer lab testing, in which users pay a company for a certain test, collect their own mouth or nasal swabs, finger-prick blood ...

If you’ve ever wondered why your doctor asks you to do a blood test or provide a urine sample at your annual checkup even if you’re feeling perfectly fine, ...

The Northern Territory (NT) Department of Health in Australia will soon become the first pathology provider to link the online tests results it is sharing via My Health Record (MHR) with Lab Tests ...