Basic Health Screening
The Basic Health Screening gives a patient the peace of mind to know if they are healthy or if they need further lab work done. There are three tests done during the health screening; these tests are the complete blood count, the Comprehensive Metabolic Panel, and the urinalysis test. These tests will recommend for further analysis.
The Essential Health Screen $89 - CBC (w diff), CMP, Urinalysis and Lipid Profile (HDL, LDL + Triglycerides)
Basic Health Screen $59 - Includes a CBC (w diff), CMP, and a Urinalysis
Cholesterol Test (Lipid Profile) $29 - HDL, LDL, Total Cholesterol + Triglycerides
Cholesterol and Heart Blood Screening
Some risk factors for heart disease are smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes, and a family history will effect if a patient will get heart disease. Heart disease is very preventable with some lifestyle changes. Have a discussion with your doctor about the risk factors and what the appropriate testing would be to help live longer. Lipid Profile for cholesterol, C - reactive protein, NMR Lipoprofile, the VAP Cholesterol Test, and Homocysteine blood tests are the tests that are performed to look for heart disease.
Prostate Testing
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men, next to skin cancer. The National Cancer Institute states that men of the age of 65 are 63 percent more likely to have prostate cancer. Having the information will help a patient decide if that test needs to be performed annually, biannually, or quarterly.
Thyroid Testing
There are many different types of symptoms for either hyper or hypothyroidism. There are multiple types of tests that will help determine and establish a treatment. A thyroids job is to secret the hormones into the blood stream. When this goes wrong there are many symptoms to let a patient know that something is not right with the body. After the patient figures it out they go and get the Thyroid Function Test or a Thyroid Profile.
Liver Testing
The liver can be tested to make sure that there is no damage to done or little damage to the liver. The liver can make proteins, store food energy, and can enable the removal of toxins. Health Testing Center will do a liver test called the Liver Function Test which is a type of blood test. The blood test results will let a patient know what types of treatments need to be done in order for the liver to get healthy again.
Cancer Testing
In the year 2007, the Nation Cancer Society released the number 7.6 million. This number was the total of deaths that year from cancer. Cancer is a very serious and deadly disease, but if caught in the early stages will be able to go into remission. Multiple Cancer Screening tests can be done at the Health Testing Centers. The types of tests that would be done range from 80-500 dollars; the 500 being all the different Cancer Screenings combined into one test. The blood tests are Carcinoembryonic Antigen, Cancer Antigen 19-9, Cancer Antigen 27.29, Cancer Antigen 125, and Alpha-Fetoprotein. Early detection can help save a life.
Hormone Testing
Many types of hormone tests are out there, at Health Testing Centers we test for multiple hormone levels. In the modern time, the aging process is now treated as a disease. To help treat this disease there is anti-aging medicine. The lab tests that are offered at Health Testing Centers are DHEA, Testosterone, Human Growth Hormone, and IGF-1. Finding out the levels of a person’s hormones can determine what kind of replacement therapy is needed.
Blood Testing Lab Locations in Marion, IL
With locations all throughout City, Marion, IL, Health Testing Centers have set up a convenient scheduling system for its patients. By visiting the Health Testing Centers website, healthtestingcenters.com, patients are able to purchase their own lab tests. This can be done before the patient has seen a physician. When the purchase has been made, a nurse from the testing facility will email a requisition form directly to the patient. The patient will then have the option of making an appointment with one of seveal LabCorp testing centers in the City, Marion, IL area. He will take the requisition form to the testing center, and proceed to have his test performed. When the results are in, a LabCorp nurse or staff member will use HIPAA compliant secure email to send them to the patient.
In the interest of saving the patient money, Health Testing Centers has lower prices than other testing facilities. They offer the commonly used test, Essential Health Screening for a cost that is similar to the price of a single blood test performed at other testing centers. Doctors frequently use this screening as a guide in determining the overall health of a patient. If a patient is interested in purchasing a prostate screening, Health Testing Centers thoroughly performs this test by using prostate check (PSA, PAP), and prostate specific antigen (PSA) test. The patient may then go to his doctor’s appointment prepared with test results in hand, saving time, and therefore speeding up the diagnosis.
The ordering process for blood work is made easy by Health Testing Centers. Patients may go to the Health Testing Centers website and purchase a test, receive a requisition form, and take it with them to a City, Marion, IL LabCorp facility that is near them. LabCorp facilities allow its patients to schedule appointments online. Most often, the appointment can be scheduled for the same day. After the test has been performed, the results should be emailed to them within a day or two. This will depend on which test was performed. The patient will be able take these results to his physician for evaluation.
For general information about blood testing you can visit Lab Tests Online or WebMd.