Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD A calcium blood test checks your calcium levels to monitor bone, kidney, and thyroid diseases.You may get one of two main types of calcium blood tests: total ...

Normal serum ionized calcium levels are crucial to many aspects of physiologic stability. Disturbances in ionized calcium are known to occur frequently in critically ill adults, and to be poorly ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: A friend has been diagnosed with high blood calcium, and when I googled it, the results concerned me. Can you give information on this and how to discuss it with the doctor? I want to ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 62-year-old white male who is 5 feet, 11 inches tall and weighs 205 pounds. I have diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. I was recently diagnosed with “moderate to ...

Dr. Neil D. Fernandes: A 29-month-old boy was transferred to this hospital because of a seizure and hypocalcemia. Approximately 2 months before the current evaluation, the patient had a febrile ...