The Alzheimer's Association released its first comprehensive clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment, and care of Alzheimer's disease (AD) at the end of July. This landmark document ...

Scientists have combined machine learning with information on blood metabolites to develop a new early diagnostic test that detects ovarian cancer with 93 percent accuracy. For over three decades, a ...

Characterized by amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia. Currently, this devastating disease afflicts approximately 7 million ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

Researchers have designed a platform to perform blood-based diagnoses of nontuberculosis mycobacteria, simplifying and shortening a long-complicated procedure from 6 months to 2 hours. Rapid, accurate ...

Around four years ago, now 77-year-old John Gormly went for what was supposed to be a routine blood test. But the results were life-changing. The test suggested Gormly had colon cancer, which a ...

Blood plasma can harbor DNA changes that could flag cancer years before existing diagnostic tests, an early study hints. The recent study, published May 22 in the journal Cancer Discovery, found ...

Long Covid has long eluded scientists looking for its cause. Not knowing what triggers its persistent and distressing symptoms makes the condition challenging to treat; it’s hard to even say ...