This year’s National HIV Testing Week has begun with Prime Minister Keir Starmer becoming the first serving UK prime minister ...

L isa Neville had her baby just before Halloween, and the first sign something was wrong came when she tried to eat a ...

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, ...

Note: Past or current smokers may need a yearly lung cancer scan. Get your ears and eyes checked as advised. Men 65 to 75 ...

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For many patients, getting ready to have surgery means getting their blood drawn, their heart rhythm checked, or having other tests in the weeks leading up to their operation.

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.

While traditional cancer screenings only cover five types of cancer, a new blood test claims to detect dozens more before ...

A year after guidelines were revised to remove the use of race in eGFR, many labs and pathologists were still relying on the ...