Sexually active people owe it to themselves and their partners to remain up to date on their sexual health screenings. It’s the best way to catch diseases early and begin necessary treatment, as well as avoid passing it to someone you care about.

STDs or sexually transmitted diseases do not always present with obvious symptoms. However, even those that do can go unnoticed. If you are wondering whether you have an STD or STI (sexually transmitted infection), you may want to know do normal blood tests show STDs on your routine blood work.

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Blood work is one of the simplest yet most powerful tools for monitoring your health. Regular blood tests can detect silent health conditions like high cholesterol, diabetes, and thyroid disorders—sometimes before symptoms even appear. Early detection can make all the difference in managing or even preventing serious health problems. But how often should you get blood work done? The answer depends on factors like age, medical history, and lifestyle. While most healthy adults should get blood work annually, those with…

For the last two years, everyone has been on the lookout for COVID-19 symptoms. Unfortunately, a complex illness like COVID-19 presents differently in different patients, often with many non-specific symptoms that could be caused by many other ailments. A fever and loss of taste used to be the COVID red flags, but the uncertainty of new variants like Omicron has caused many to question their COVID status in the presence of much less dramatic symptoms. Therefore, the first thought you may have if you start to feel back pain is to ask if COVID-19 could cause it.

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