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 has rolled out an ultrasensitive blood test to monitor multiple myeloma treatment, potentially sparing patients from more invasive and costly bone marrow aspirations. Quest Flow ...

A new blood test may reveal Crohn’s disease years before symptoms begin. The test detects an unusual immune response to gut bacteria in people who later develop the condition. By studying healthy ...

A finger-prick blood test that can be mailed to a lab may offer a simpler way to detect the brain changes linked to Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study. Researchers tested whether tiny ...

A small study found that a blood test could identify whether someone had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) with 92% accuracy. Because CFS and long COVID have some biological overlap, this research could ...

Cancer continues to be one of the world's top causes of death, partly because of delayed discovery of the disease. But according to a recently released study, a simple blood test may be able to ...

Jonathan Wosen is STAT’s West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter. You can reach Jonathan on Signal at jwosen.27. As part of its bid to transform the future of cancer screening and seize control of ...

Share on Pinterest Scientists are getting closer to accurately and quickly diagnosing chronic fatigue syndrome. Santi Nuñez/Stocksy There is no single test to diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), ...

Cancer screening is at a turning point. For decades, most tests focused on one form of the disease — like mammograms for breast cancer or colonoscopies for colorectal cancer — but new advances have ...

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 ...

The early signs of Alzheimer's disease—more frequent memory loss, increased confusion—can be difficult to detect, often delaying diagnosis. That could change with an inexpensive and noninvasive blood ...