KOCHI: Malayalam actor Shine Tom Chacko and seven others were acquitted by the Ernakulam Additional Sessions Court in a case ...

L isa Neville had her baby just before Halloween, and the first sign something was wrong came when she tried to eat a traditional toffee apple. Lisa, 46, said: “Every year, I usually either buy or ...

People aged 16 and over who receive blood tests in A&E at Leeds General Infirmary and St James's University Hospital are now ...

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, ...

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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.

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