The starting age dropped, a blood test joined the list, and there's now an age doctors say to quit.

Only Abbott offers a complete screening solution combining end-to-end support with both stool- and blood-based colorectal ...

Adding a blood test to routine screening found about 6.5 times as many cancers in adults over 50, including many at an early stage.

As family physicians, we often face difficult decisions about ordering tests for the early diagnosis or prevention of disease in healthy-appearing persons. It is hard to convince many patients to ...

Broad access to testing is one of the most powerful tools to keep the COVID-19 pandemic under control until there’s an effective vaccine in use. Diagnostic testing, which is used in medical settings ...

A screening test can determine if a person has an infection with hepatitis B. It involves a blood test that detects antigens and antibodies for hepatitis B virus (HBV). Hepatitis B, or hep B, is a ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a blood test to be used for colorectal cancer screening among average-risk adults 45 and older. The maker of the test, Palo Alto, California-based ...

LR+ = positive likelihood ratio; LR– = negative likelihood ratio; PSA = prostate-specific antigen; PSE = EpiSwitch prostate screening. *—Binary PSA is defined as a simple test using a fixed cutoff ...

A single blood test that can identify most cancers remains the aspirational goal of cancer screening. The US biotechnology company Grail has been closest to developing a viable multicancer detection ...