Blood tests that detect early cancer are coming to market. Could they lead to earlier diagnosis and treatment?

You might get the test: The test takes a sample of your blood. It can be done in the doctor's office. The doctor will place a needle into a vein in your arm to draw out the blood. You might feel a ...

If you haven’t been diagnosed with diabetes, your healthcare professional will likely recommend a blood sample test in their office or at a separate lab. But if you’re managing your diabetes ...

But there's a catch: New research suggests that those blood tests may be unreliable, especially in Black patients. Doctors ...

Northwestern Medicine will be part of a multiyear, multicenter clinical trial to validate the performance and safety of the ...

UTEP researchers develop a new blood-based test for early detection of colorectal cancer using a portable device.

A groundbreaking study has successfully translated high-field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy-based lipoprotein ...

A study has demonstrated the high accuracy of plasma p-tau217 as a blood-based biomarker for detecting abnormal brain beta-amyloid pathology, a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease.

Gormly was one of the first patients to take a newly approved test called Shield, which its makers say can detect colon cancer from a blood sample. After his diagnosis, Gormly had surgery to ...