Drugmaker Novartis’ Super Bowl ad explained that prostate cancer screening starts with a simple blood test, aiming to dispel fear of an exam for a treatable cancer.

CURRENTLY, ROUTINE CANCER screenings only cover a small slice of cancers. For men in the US, there are guideline-backed screening tests for just two cancers: colorectal and lung cancer (lung ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Rather than provide clarity on how to reduce racial bias in pulse ...

The start-up Function will send practically anyone to a lab for extensive medical testing, no physical required. Is that a good thing? By Kristen V. Brown As Kimberly Crisp approached middle age, ...

WITH MY FEET in the stirrups, I felt an electric jolt of pain roll through my abdomen. I gripped the sides of the examination table, knuckles turning white. The two Tylenol the nurse had told me to ...

New Jersey Medicare patients will be guinea pigs in a grand experiment that tests the capabilities of using artificial intelligence to decide which medical procedures should be covered by insurance.

Introduction Today, arterial blood gas (ABG) testing is widely used in various hospital departments to support diagnosing diseases and predicting patient conditions. However, interpreting the ...

There’s new progress in the battle against Alzheimer’s disease. About 1 in 9 US seniors has Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia, which slowly impairs memory, thinking skills and the ability ...

Cancer continues to be one of the world's top causes of death, partly because of delayed discovery of the disease. But according to a recently released study, a simple blood test may be able to ...

Master the essentials of user acceptance testing. See the steps project managers must follow to validate software with end users. As a project manager and Scrum Master, I view the UAT team as the “fun ...

"No cancer signal detected." The blood test results popped up in my online health portal without much fanfare. A doctor would chat about them with me later, congratulating me on the "phew"-worthy ...

A team of scientists has developed a highly accurate blood test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The test reads tiny DNA patterns that reveal the biological signature of the illness. For millions who’ve ...