Your doctor just mentioned ordering a comprehensive metabolic panel, and you’re wondering what that means and why you need it. Don’t worry — this isn’t some scary, complicated procedure. It’s actually ...

It can take months or years for doctors to determine whether people with early signs of memory loss have Alzheimer's disease. But experts say a new generation of blood tests may replace the expensive ...

The new self-sampling method, which is done at home and the dry sample sent by post, could make Alzheimer's testing much more ...

Simple finger-prick blood samples that can be collected at home and mailed to laboratories without refrigeration or prior ...

In 2017, Dr. Barbi Phelps-Sandall, an obstetrician who has been practicing in the San Francisco Bay area for more than two decades, had just learned about a new blood test only available at select ...

A FINGER-PRICK blood test that you carry out yourself could one day diagnose Alzheimer’s disease. Experiments suggest the ...

Dr. Omar Al-Heeti is an assistant professor of medicine at Southern Illinois University and practices internal medicine with a specialty in infectious diseases. He received his medical degree from the ...

A company is looking at blood as a possible diagnosis tool for mental illness. Blood tests can check for infections and high cholesterol, but currently, they can’t test for mental illness or pain. A ...