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 ...

CRP (C-reactive protein) is a protein made by your liver in response to inflammation or injury. It’s part of the body’s immune response. In normal lab tests, CRP is used to detect infections, ...

Procalcitonin test demand from the emergency department is growing, necessitating the implementation of strategies to address overuse. Successful interventions must be based on information technology.

Heart attacks are difficult to predict, even seemingly healthy people can be affected by it, taking many people by surprise. Although it affects many people, not many people know that there are tests ...

Serum calprotectin and complement factor 3 may better identify systemic inflammation than CRP in patients with early psoriatic arthritis, especially those who are CRP negative or have obesity.

A study finds that a blood test that evaluates levels of three compounds — lipoprotein(a), C-reactive protein (a marker of inflammation), and “bad” LDL cholesterol — can accurately reveal heart ...