Background: Current guidelines for screening of colorectal cancer do not offer specific recommendations for cessation of antithrombotic agents prior to fecal occult blood test (FOBT). Aim ...

also called a sedimentation rate test or sed rate test, measures how quickly red blood cells sink to the bottom of a test tube. A high rate of settlement indicates high levels of inflammation.

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Soon I was in a hazmat suit blenderizing stool and performing my first (subsequently named) fecal microbiota transplant, or FMT. My patient was cured, and I began two decades of care of thousands ...

[19] This study was limited by failure to establish the reliability of the bililabstix as a test for occult blood, failure to blind the test results, and retrospective patient classification.

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Prediabetes is a condition characterized by mildly elevated blood sugar. If left untreated, prediabetes can increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. About 97.6 million American adults have ...

John Lennon and his fellow Beatles were still at primary school when notorious occult figure Aleister Crowley ... allegedly sold with a drop of human blood. (Nike ended up suing the creative ...