Calcium blood test     The calcium blood test measures the level of calcium in the blood.   Your body requires calcium to maintain healthy bones and teeth. It’s also essential for keeping your nerves, heart, and muscles functioning properly. Since calcium is so important for many of your body’s functions, its levels need to be withi…

Blood Glucose Test Blood glucose test is used to screen the sugar level in your body.  Normal blood glucose level (while fasting) range within 70 to 99 mg/dL (3.9 to 5.5 mmol/L). Higher ranges could indicate pre-diabetes or diabetes. How should you prepare? If you are asked to fast, you can’t eat anything for 8 to 10 hours before th…

Common Blood Tests Your evaluation may include the performance of specific blood tests, including (but not limited to) cell counts, measurement of various blood chemistries and markers of inflammation. We can measure many things in your blood such as salts, blood cell counts and protein markers specific to the heart (one is called B…

PLATELETS Platelets, or thrombocytes, are small, colorless cell fragments in our blood that form clots and stop or prevent bleeding. Platelets are made in our bone marrow, the sponge-like tissue inside our bones. Bone marrow contains stem cells that develop into red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Functions of Plate…

What Is Plasma? Plasma is the liquid part of your blood. You may have heard of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. But plasma is also part of your blood. One of its jobs is keeping your blood pressure in a healthy range. It also carries important proteins, minerals, nutrients, and hormones to the right places in y…

What Are Red Blood Cells? Red blood cells carry fresh oxygen all over the body. This is important to your health. Red blood cells are round with a flattish, indented centre, like doughnuts without a hole. Function of Red Blood Cells Hemoglobin is the protein inside red blood cells. It carries oxygen. Red blood cells also remove …