Experience Assay care
Lab notes
The questions we get asked on the phone, answered properly. No medical degree assumed and nothing dressed up.
Lab notes
What fasting actually means before a blood test
Eight to twelve hours, water allowed, and that includes the sugar in your tea. Half the borderline glucose results we repeat are not borderline at all — they belong to somebody who had a biscuit at six in the morning and did not think it counted. Here is exactly what to do the night before, and the three tests where it makes no difference at all.
12 July 2026
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Lab notes
Why a negative malaria test is not always the end of it
A rapid test looks for a protein that can linger for weeks after treatment, and a film looks for parasites that may be sequestered when the blood was taken. Neither is wrong; they answer different questions. If you are still febrile on day three with a negative result, the right move is a repeat film, not a different pharmacy.
28 June 2026
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Public health
The four numbers everyone over forty should know
Blood pressure, fasting glucose, a lipid profile and a kidney function panel. Between them they catch most of what quietly damages people in this country for a decade before it announces itself, and all four can be done in one visit and one fast. We have priced them together for exactly that reason.
9 June 2026
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Public health
How to read a full blood count without frightening yourself
A result flagged outside its range is not a diagnosis — reference ranges are built so that one healthy person in twenty falls outside them. What matters is which value moved, by how much, and whether it has moved before. This is the walkthrough we give people on the phone, written down.
21 May 2026
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Experience Assay care
Healthcare: advancing your health knowledge
Lab notes
What fasting actually means before a blood test
12 July 2026
Lab notes
Why a negative malaria test is not always the end of it
28 June 2026
Public health
The four numbers everyone over forty should know
9 June 2026
Public health
How to read a full blood count without frightening yourself
21 May 2026
Book a test this week
Walk in at Spintex or any of our nineteen collection points, or ask for a home draw and we will come to you. Most results are with you the same evening.
