There are all sorts of ways to get an infectious disease—from people and animals, to eating contaminated foods, to environmental exposure.
Yale Medicine is at the forefront of a growing movement to provide tobacco cessation intervention in the emergency department to help stop smoking.
Parasites cause a wide range of diseases, from malaria to giardiasis to toxoplasmosis. Laboratory tests are required for diagnosis and to guide treatment.
Molecular diagnostics involves analyzing DNA or RNA for red flags that can pinpoint the potential emergence of a specific disease.
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The number one cause of death in America is heart attack, and the top symptom of a heart attack is chest pain, so people should take such pains seriously.
Laboratory tests that used to take days to come back can now be performed instantly and accurately, using point-of-care tests.
Concussion testing is done when a person experiences a minor head trauma, typically caused by blunt trauma to the head.
A type of bacterium, Clostridium difficile (C. diff), causes one of the most common health care-associated infections in the United States.