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A newly approved blood test can help rule out some cases based on the amount of amyloid in the brain. A neurology professor ...

Elaine Chen covers biotech, co-writes The Readout newsletter, and co-hosts STAT’s weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud. You can reach Elaine on Signal at elaineywchen.70. A major Alzheimer’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Want to B-positive about your health? Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a cutting-edge blood test that can detect signs of cancer three years before any symptoms surface. The breakthrough could ...

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Routine blood tests could offer doctors important and affordable information to help predict risk of death, the presence of an injury and how severe it might be." Dr. Abel Torres Espín, Professor, ...

A routine blood test may be able to detect cancer more than three years before diagnosis, a new study suggests. Using a multicancer early detection test, they identified tumor-derived genetic ...

A new type of blood test could help detect multiple cancers early. A team of researchers in California studied a new multi-cancer early detection (MCED) test called Galleri, which can reportedly ...