In medicine, a person’s blood-test results are compared with the average range in a population. But results are highly individual and tightly regulated around a person’s own stable values.

If your medical provider outside the Rochester area orders a lab test, you can arrange to have samples (blood, urine, etc.) collected at the Student Health Center for a fee and sent to an outside lab.

Under a new federal directive, commercial labs are required to give patients copies of their laboratory data on request, and the broker had asked for his. He received the report so promptly that I ...