A haptoglobin test measures the amount of haptoglobin in your blood. Haptoglobin is a protein produced by your liver. It binds with hemoglobin, which is a protein found in red blood cells. Red blood ...

Epithelial ovarian cancer is associated with a high mortality rate despite the high cure rate for early-stage disease by surgical resection alone. This discrepancy between the high mortality rate and ...

Alzheimer’s disease risk associated with the APOE gene just got even more complicated. In a bioRxiv preprint uploaded September 23, researchers led by William Bush, Case Western Reserve University, ...

Chronic systemic low-grade inflammation may increase the risk for psychiatric disorders. Elevated inflammatory biomarkers – especially leukocytes and haptoglobin – are associated with an increased ...

Nitric oxide (NO) has an important role in the hemodynamic changes found during healthy pregnancy. 1 Increased heart rate, plasma volume and cardiac output over the course of a normal pregnancy are ...

New, quick, and inexpensive tests for haptoglobin are now available to tip off farmers and vets, revealing if a seemingly healthy cow has an internal infection, or that cattle on antibiotic treatments ...