Your body produces the enzyme creatine kinase (CK) or creatine phosphokinase to keep your muscles functioning properly. Healthcare providers use the CK test to check levels of this protein in your ...

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A simple £5 blood test for the protein troponin could predict a person's risk of heart attacks and strokes with greater accuracy than ever before, research suggests.

Inflammatory arthritis encompasses a group of autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriatic arthritis ...

Researchers have developed a new metric using data already collected by your smartwatch that can assess cardiovascular ...

Across the study, two patients experienced “serious adverse events of atrial fibrillation (AF) requiring cardioversion,” ...

Anticoagulants and antiplatelet agents pose a great risk in patients undergoing surgery. Because these products inhibit at least one, and often multiple, factors in the clotting cascade, patients ...

A sweet, fruity odor from your breath may indicate ketoacidosis, an acute complication of diabetes. An odor of ammonia may be associated with kidney disease, which can sometimes be linked to diabetes.

Range of motion (ROM) is a measurement of the distance and direction a joint can move to its full potential. Hip ROM is dictated by the ball-and-socket hip joint, which is made up of the femur ...