A new blood test that could help doctors identify whether a patient has Alzheimer’s disease was cleared by the FDA last week. The diagnostic tool, the Elecsys pTau 181 plasma test, is developed by ...

Elaine Chen covers biotech, co-writes The Readout newsletter, and co-hosts STAT’s weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud. You can reach Elaine on Signal at elaineywchen.70. A major Alzheimer’s ...

As scientists race to develop simple blood tests that could one day act as an early warning system for Alzheimer’s disease by sounding the alarm before memory problems appear, new research shows ...

Blood draws for several kinds of diagnostic tests require you to fast for several hours. Eating or drinking anything besides water can skew the results, leading to you needing to be retested. You may ...

When I signed up to try a bunch of health and aging tests for The Post, I knew there would be blood. I just didn’t realize how much blood I’d have to surrender. I’ve undergone several fertility ...

Dr. Omar Al-Heeti is an assistant professor of medicine at Southern Illinois University and practices internal medicine with a specialty in infectious diseases. He received his medical degree from the ...

Researchers have succeeded in identifying biomarkers of the debilitating disease in its earliest stages.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The study will evaluate whether two multicancer early detection tests improve early detection of 10 solid tumors ...

SEATTLE — Doctors use blood tests to figure out cholesterol levels, blood sugar, and certain infections. But what if there's a blood test for cancer? The technology for a test like this has been ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) dropped a proposed policy to further delineate Medicare coverage for the types of blood tests that organ recipients often get to monitor for ...

Such a treatment also may help determine how many people were exposed. With a limited supply of COVID-19 tests in the United States, people with mild symptoms are less likely to be tested, leaving ...