Liver scarring can pave the way to cancer down the line. A new blood test in development might help doctors spot it.

New research from the University of Minnesota Medical School confirms that testing for congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) at birth using the routinely collected dried blood spot (DBS) is a reliable and ...

Finger-prick blood tests at home detected Alzheimer's biomarkers nearly as well as standard methods. The DROP-AD study suggested that dried blood spots could revolutionize screening approaches for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A clinical trial demonstrated that adding the Galleri multi-cancer early detection blood test to standard screening methods ...

Before the symptoms of cognitive loss are severe enough to be diagnosed, something in the blood seems to be changing. That is what a new study out of the University of East Anglia supports. Scientists ...

A home finger-prick test promises to catch hidden cardiometabolic risks in young adults, if paired with hands-on guidance and smarter support systems. Study: Feasibility of self-administered dried ...

FOX 9 Minneapolis‑St. Paul highlighted how the approach could flag Alzheimer’s earlier than conventional testing. The ...

One day, all that will be needed to pick up the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s may be a single drop of blood from a finger prick. In a January 5 Nature Medicine paper, researchers led by Nicholas ...

A routine blood marker tied to inflammation may reveal Alzheimer’s risk years in advance. Scientists found that higher neutrophil levels—part of the body’s first immune response—were linked to a ...

Capillary blood tests measure p-tau217, GFAP, and NfL without strict temperature controls or immediate centrifugation. Primary care physicians currently have a diagnostic accuracy of ~61% for ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A clinical trial demonstrated that adding the Galleri multi-cancer early detection blood test to standard screening methods significantly boosts cancer detection rates. Presented at a ...