The tests could help to improve dementia care, but scientists say there are still some caveats and unknowns. By Dana G. Smith Could a simple blood test predict your risk of getting dementia years, or ...

A Miami man credits a routine blood test for saving his life. Ian Ferguson, 37, had no symptoms when he got standard blood ...

A new kind of blood test promises to find cancer early—sometimes even before symptoms appear. The pitch is compelling: a single sample of blood could scan the body for dozens of different cancers at ...

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A new blood test could change the outlook for one of the deadliest cancers—pancreatic cancer—by catching it much earlier than ever before. Researchers identified two previously unknown proteins in the ...

A simple blood test might detect women at risk for cognitive decline and dementia 25 years before any symptoms appear. The blood test looks for high levels of a protein called p-tau217, indicating ...

Researchers in the UC Davis Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine have created a new tuberculosis blood test that ...

A new blood test could speed up diagnosis and treatment for people dealing with early memory or thinking changes. The FDA has cleared Elecsys pTau181, the first blood test for use in primary care to ...

A new study from the University of California, San Diego, suggests a simple blood test could help predict dementia decades before symptoms appear. Researchers analyzed blood samples from more than ...

Could a simple blood test predict your risk of getting dementia years, or even decades, before you experience memory loss? That’s the potential promise of a new class of biomarker tests. Two were ...

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Alzheimer's can be detected early with p-tau blood biomarkers, but some tests can lead to overdiagnosis. Combining p-tau217 and eMTBR-tau243 may refine diagnostic accuracy and reduce false-positives.