A person should only fast before a blood test if their doctor or healthcare professional specifically instructs them to do so. Not all blood tests require fasting. If a doctor or healthcare ...

A simple blood test is one of the best ways to ensure your health is on track and catch any potential warning signs of something more sinister before it's too late, a leading GP has advised. If you ...

The test may make it easier to identify whether people with memory and thinking problems have Alzheimer’s or not. By Pam Belluck A blood test that can help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease has received ...

Getting an endometriosis diagnosis is often costly, time-consuming and invasive. Now, it could be as easy as a simple blood ...

Because the risk of many conditions increases with age, doctors generally recommend more frequent lab testing as you get ...

But whether patients should be getting the tests—as some already are—is not yet clear. New blood tests can detect cancer recurrence earlier than traditional scans, potentially giving doctors and ...

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

The blood test is nearly 92% as accurate as a PET scan or spinal tap in detecting patients with Alzheimer’s Getty The FDA greenlit marketing for the first blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer’s ...

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 ...