A simple finger prick blood test may help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, according to research revealed this week at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) in Amsterdam. The blood ...

Shining near-infrared light on a person’s skin helped scientists accurately track his blood glucose levels, offering a ...

Using a device that shines near-infrared light on the skin to reveal the chemical composition of the tissue, a team of ...

A simple finger prick blood test may be the next medical advancement in diagnosing Alzheimer’s. It might even make it possible to test at home, according to new research out Wednesday. “This is so ...

Breakthroughs in optical sensing, like band-pass Raman spectroscopy, promise a future free from painful finger-prick blood ...

Having your blood pressure measured via an inflatable arm cuff can be stressful, potentially causing that pressure to be higher than normal when the reading is taken. A new finger clip device, however ...

A finger-prick blood test to diagnose the deadliest form of stroke might be twice as effective at spotting it than using a patient’s symptoms alone. The test, which works similarly to a lateral flow ...

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A definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease now requires a series of complicated and expensive imaging scans that look for abnormal protein plaques and tangles in the brain. But in the near future, ...

You’ve surely seen them when you’ve gone to the emergency room or were admitted to the hospital or even just had an outpatient procedure: a plastic clamp that the nurse attached to your index finger ...