When you experience physical trauma like a wound, injury, or infection, your body attempts to heal through the inflammatory process. The red, swollen, tender skin you’ll notice around an abrasion is ...

- Automated CRP Test for professional use in primary and community care, patient home and hospital emergency care settings to aid in the assessment of infection, tissue injury, and inflammatory ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: For the past six years, every time I have my annual labs done, my CRP has been very high. Normal range is listed as 0-3 mg/L. My results have consistently been 7-10 mg/L or more. When ...

Most people associate heart attacks with obvious warning signs like chest pain or shortness of breath. But what if your body could reveal the risk years in advance through a simple blood test? In an ...

The biological function of the C-reactive protein, CRP, has long been unknown. Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden now show that this protein has a beneficial function in systemic lupus ...

Whenever we think of the highest marker for heart attack, cholesterol is the name that comes up first. Yet, there’s another blood test that might actually out‑shine cholesterol, in flagging your risk ...