A teenage girl presented to the hospital emergency department with a three-week history of intermittent frontal headache, which was worse in the morning and associated with nausea, vomiting, lethargy, ...

The dad of a four-year-old boy who died of sepsis after being turned away from a London hospital three times has issued a ...

Schertz had backed off his stance that he was finished coaching, but he wasn’t entirely convinced he could continue. He ...

Years before tau tangles show up in brain scans of patients with Alzheimer's disease, a biomarker test can detect small amounts of the clumping-prone tau protein and its misfolded pathological forms ...

Sepsis, a life-threatening organ dysfunction, is responsible for an estimated 1 in 5 deaths globally and 1 in 3 deaths that ...

Compared with usual care, a mid-trimester blood test designed to predict preterm birth for average-risk women markedly reduced neonatal morbidity when paired with a three-step treatment bundle, ...

Blood tests are routinely used by veterinarians to monitor a dog’s health or help diagnose medical conditions. But often the results of a dog blood test, or the reasons why a test is being run in the ...

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Stanford Medicine is the first to offer the new blood test for mold infections deep inside the body, sparing patients from tissue biopsies.

Nearly every disease has an inflammatory component, but blood tests can't pinpoint inflammation in specific organs or tissues in the human body. Now researchers have developed a method to detect ...

Prehospital measurement of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) can rapidly differentiate intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) from ischemic stroke (IS) and stroke mimics.