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Home Blood Tests: What’s the Next Step?

In a time when there is uncertainty and anxiety surrounding medical care and health insurance, many people are looking for affordable ways to acquire health care. One way to decrease your medical bill is by performing blood tests from the comfort of your own home. Selfie Healthy provides a unique online Self Health Care experience, allowing you to order a variety of blood tests and have the kits shipped directly to your home. Many people many people don't have the time or money to visit a doctor. Visits can take you away from your job or your family for hours at a time, and lab test results can take weeks. You can save yourself some time and money by performing...

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Understanding Your CBC Blood Results

Understanding the different characteristics of each blood cell in your body is important, yet not many people know what each cell does. If you’re an individual who requires regular home blood tests, it’s vital to understand the meaning behind each type of cell, including mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), red cell distribution width (RDW), platelet count and mean platelet volume (MPV). To recap from our last post, we gave readers the info they needed to better understand the importance of their CBC, also known as a Complete Blood Count. Additional types of cells found in a CBC: White blood cell or leukocyte count (WBC). WBC differential count. Hematocrit (Hct). Hemoglobin (Hbg). Red blood cell or erythrocyte count (RBC). Mean corpuscular...

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