A three-year clinical trial seeks to find out if a simple blood test can detect cancer in senior citizens. The post Can a ...

New options for testing and treating some of the most common sexually transmitted diseases are becoming available.

Famed biohacker Bryan Johnson and his Blueprint team devised this measure of harmful plastic particles in your blood.

NTT INDYCAR SERIES testing is limited to save teams money, so drivers and crews must make the most of every minute in the ...

The start-up Function will send practically anyone to a lab for extensive medical testing, no physical required. Is that a ...

New federal guidance is expanding testing for cervical cancer with a self-collection method. Dr. Mara Gordon speaks to NPR about why this option might become popular for screening for HPV.

Testing a person’s blood for a type of protein called phosphorylated tau, or p-tau, could be used to screen for Alzheimer’s disease with “high accuracy,” even before symptoms begin to show, a new ...

As we get into another winter holiday season, COVID is still part of our lives. And although it's hard to predict exactly what this year's cold, flu and coronavirus season will look like, experts want ...

I reassured him and sent him to get another blood specimen drawn without a tourniquet. Why? Because I suspected that the ...

Backers claim the tests can predict a child’s risk of autism using a strand of hair or a mother’s blood, but critics say they are not ready for the market.