Blood test shows promise for cancer detection, study finds
(HealthDay)—Researchers say they've developed a blood test that can detect some cases of early stage lung and prostate cancer.
Oct 16, 2013
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(HealthDay)—Researchers say they've developed a blood test that can detect some cases of early stage lung and prostate cancer.
Oct 16, 2013
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You might not think to look to a urine test to diagnose an eye disease.
Oct 8, 2013
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More than 1 million men will undergo a prostate biopsy this year, but only about one-fifth of those biopsies will result in a cancer diagnosis.
Sep 26, 2013
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A specific gene variant is more frequent among elite athletes in power sports, reports a study in the October issue of The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, official research journal of the National Strength ...
Sep 25, 2013
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More than 20,000 people in Pakistan are being tested for the potentially deadly stage of tuberculosis using a new strategy developed at UC Davis Health System to effectively detect the disease in children for the first time.
Aug 21, 2013
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An international scientific collaborative led by the Harvard Stem Cell Institute's Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD, has discovered why women who give birth in their early twenties are less likely to eventually develop breast cancer ...
Aug 12, 2013
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Researchers at the University of Southampton have identified new markers of tuberculosis (TB) that may help in the development of new diagnostic tests and treatments.
Aug 9, 2013
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If a girl younger than 16 gives birth in Mississippi and won't name the father, a new state law says authorities must collect umbilical cord blood and run DNA tests to prove paternity.
Aug 2, 2013
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In children with fever but no other symptoms of illness, it is difficult to know whether a child has a viral infection that will resolve on its own or a potentially serious bacterial infection that requires antibiotics.
Jul 15, 2013
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Researchers from the University of Liverpool and University of the West of England, (UWE Bristol), have built a device that can read odours in urine to help diagnose patients with early signs of bladder cancer.
Jul 8, 2013
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