A blood sample small enough to come from a finger prick, paired with a set of online thinking tests, may offer a new way to ...

New blood tests measuring p-tau217 levels show promise for predicting Alzheimer's risk years before symptoms appear, though ...

With the approval of anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies to treat early-stage Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the need for accurate and early diagnosis is crucial. Blood-based biomarkers offer a promising ...

Share on Pinterest Researchers are developing a simple blood test that could assess your health span and lifespan. Image credit: Santi Nuñez/Stocksy. Intrinsic capacity is the sum of a person’s mental ...

What if you could get checked for colon cancer with only a routine blood draw? A new blood test in Michigan is making the process much easier. No bowel prep, no sedation and no awkward stool kit to ...

The U.S. FDA recently approved a new blood test to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease. The test, called Lumipulse, measures two proteins in plasma: pTau217 and ß-Amyloid 1-42. These proteins clump together ...

What if a blood test could reveal the pace of our aging – and the diseases that may lie ahead? The labs of Profs. Liran Shlush and Amos Tanay at the Weizmann Institute of Science have been conducting ...

Our bodies do not age at a uniform rate. The speed at which one organ ages can differ greatly from another due to a range of lifestyle, environmental and genetic factors. Conventional tests provide a ...

Which blood glucose test strips are best? According to the Centers for Disease Control, over 30 million Americans have diabetes and nearly 98 million have prediabetes. Measuring blood glucose levels ...

Blood tests can help diagnose and monitor systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). These include tests for antinuclear antibodies (ANAs), anti-double-stranded DNA (anti-dsDNA) antibodies, and more. While ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, in collaboration with the UK Biobank and the University of Turin, Italy, have identified a ...