The test can help assess your lifetime risk for cardiovascular disease. That, along with earlier treatment for high cholesterol, is part of new doctors' guidelines.

Now, researchers at UBC Okanagan say saliva may offer a much simpler way to spot that risk. Their study suggests that a saliva test can reflect insulin patterns linked to metabolic health, opening the ...

A simple blood test identified women at higher risk for dementia up to 25 years before symptoms appeared. Higher levels of the biomarker p-tau217 were linked to a much greater chance of developing ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have uncovered how a single protein triggers two opposite responses in blood vessels—one inflammatory and one protective. This protein, a ...

The genetics-based blood test predicted two-year survival with accuracy as high as 86% among hundreds of seniors, researchers reported Feb. 24 in the journal Aging Cell. The test is based on ...

“Bad,” or LDL, cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart disease and most people are screened for it as part of their yearly physicals. There’s another marker in the blood that may be a better ...

When it comes to cancer, waiting for symptoms may soon be old news. Telehealth company Hims & Hers began offering a blood test this week that screens for a wide range of cancers before warning signs ...

Quest Diagnostics debuts a new blood test for myeloma MRD, offering NGS-level sensitivity and a less invasive alternative to bone marrow biopsies. Quest Diagnostics has announced the launch of a novel ...

The syndrome of inappropriate antidiuresis (SIAD) has been associated with various diseases. However, to our knowledge, only a few studies have reported multiple myeloma (MM) as a potential cause of ...

A new, fast and easy test could revolutionize blood transfusions—giving blood centers and hospitals a reliable way to monitor the quality of red blood cells after they sit for weeks in storage. The ...

A simple blood test can help detect cancer in patients with non-specific symptoms such as fatigue, pain or weight loss. This is according to a Swedish study from Karolinska Institutet, Danderyd ...

Alzheimer’s disease blood test developer Quanterix put forward new clinical data from its Simoa assay, which it described as the largest population-based assessment of the condition’s ...