The study suggests the tests could save lives by catching cancer at earlier stages, when it's more easily treated. It predicted that, over a decade of use, MCEDs could reduce stage IV cancer diagnoses ...

For years, the “gold standard” for measuring biological age — which is how fast you’re aging, regardless of what your ...

Malaria continues to place a substantial burden on many emerging economies, contributing to significant loss of life, ...

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Which is why, in part, the promise — and boom — of blood biomarkers testing has moved quickly in the past three to five years, researchers say. The FDA recently cleared two blood tests that detect ...

ALS is a debilitating paralytic disease characterized as the death of upper and lower motor neurons. Fortunately, ALS is ...

Look out for leg pain, swelling, redness, and warmth as signs of a blood clot in the leg. Seek medical help quickly if you have symptoms like sudden shortness of breath or chest pain. A pulmonary ...

Abstract: Microarray chip technology has met the challenges of traditional fluorescent labeling in terms of high cost and low detection efficiency , and provides a high-throughput and cost-effective ...

The tests have not been approved by federal regulators, but that hasn’t stopped patients from wanting them — and doctors from worrying. By Nina Agrawal In the spring of 2021, the cancer field was ...

A new blood test from Quest Diagnostics has Alzheimer's experts concerned. The Quest AD-Detect test, which consumers can now purchase from home without visiting a doctor first, measures amyloid-beta ...