What Is a Fecal Occult Blood Test? The fecal occult blood test (FOBT) looks for the presence of blood in the feces, which may be a sign of a problem in your digestive system. The amount of blood ...

We have sent robots to Mars, made working artificial hearts, explored the deepest depths of the Mariana Trench and sequenced the human genome, and yet, we haven’t been able to make artificial blood.

The process to diagnose these traumatic brain injuries can be tedious, but new FDA approval for a blood test could be a game changer for this field. “The Abbott i-STAT TBI blood test is ...

A blood test appears capable of detecting early-stage pancreatic cancers with up to 97% accuracy, a new study reports. The test looks for eight small RNA particles and eight larger DNA markers ...

A new blood test could determine whether someone will develop knee osteoarthritis up to eight years before structural damage is picked up by an X-ray. A simple blood test may be able to detect ...

who has been a consultant for Caris Life Sciences, which is also designing a multi-cancer blood test. “It means nothing if these tests don’t lead to better survival.” The tests probably are ...

A father given blood infected with a life-threating virus had a "complete mistrust of the system" before taking his own life, his daughter said. Keith Francis - who contracted the hepatitis C ...

A blood test to provide an early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease may be available soon from two Indianapolis biomedical companies, as the cases of the progressive neurological illness are on the ...

Every patient who carried this set of antibodies went on to develop MS. Researchers hope these antibodies will someday form the basis of a simple blood test to ... for a better life," Wilson ...

A blood test to provide an early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease may be available soon from two Indianapolis biomedical companies, as the cases of the progressive neurological illness are on the ...