Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All UK children could be offered screening for type 1 diabetes using a simple finger-prick blood test, say researchers who have ...

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 ...

Minneapolis-based University of Minnesota medical students and other volunteers may have exposed 300 St. Paul, Minn., residents to infectious diseases due to misuse of blood monitoring equipment at ...

A finger-prick blood test that can be mailed to a lab may offer a simpler way to detect the brain changes linked to Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study. Researchers tested whether tiny ...

The research is part of the PREDICTOM study, funded by the Innovative Health Initiative Joint Undertaking (IHI JU). Within this study, researchers are investigating whether biomarkers such as p-Tau217 ...

There are indications that a simple finger-prick blood test could, in the future, detect Alzheimer's disease long before the first clinical symptoms become apparent. This is shown by research ...