Recovery advocates have been pushing for years to get a bill passed to decriminalize test strips, which allow users to ...

Pancreatic cancer is another disease that could benefit from a blood-based diagnostic test. Unlike colon cancer, pancreatic ...

A drug that renders users in a zombie state with open sores in their skin has been detected for the first time in the drug ...

The presence of xylazine, a horse tranquilizer that is increasingly found mixed with fentanyl in supplies of illegal drugs, ...

The practice of drawing blood has changed very little over the decades. It looks about the same now as it did 50 years ago.

As a general rule, many people can benefit from CBC, lipid panel, BMP and hemoglobin A1C even without any symptoms. Also, ...

Bioengineering professor and The Grainger College of Engineering's Dean, Rashid Bashir, led a team of researchers in a ...

Read more There is a new and less invasive option to test for colon cancer and it doesn’t require a stay at the hospital or mailing a stool sample.

Pham offers the blood test to his patients at Thrive Medical in Leander. He said 50 million Americans who are currently at the recommended age to get screened don’t get tested. The American ...

A blood test can reveal your mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) level. Mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) is a measurement of the average amount of hemoglobin within a red blood cell. MCH that's ...

The tests, which resemble a Covid lateral flow strip, turn positive if a high level of a protein called PSA is detected in a drop of blood. Of five rapid tests analysed by the BBC, one did not ...