A potential blood test can distinguish ME/chronic fatigue syndrome with great accuracy, after years of medical uncertainty.

A TB blood test can find out whether you have the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria in your body. Whether you need to get tested and how often depends on your specific circumstances. A blood test ...

From smartphone apps to watches, there is an increasing number of ways you can check your blood pressure, but some doctors are not ready to endorse them. “They haven’t really been tested appropriately ...

A blood test, combined with an ultrathin material derived from graphite, could significantly advance efforts to detect ...

A new finger prick test claims to detect Alzheimer’s with 91% accuracy using p-tau217 biomarkers. Learn how this accessible ...

You don't have to go to a healthcare provider's office whenever you want to check your blood pressure. Instead, you can check ...

I reassured him and sent him to get another blood specimen drawn without a tourniquet. Why? Because I suspected that the ...

A person should only fast before a blood test if their doctor or healthcare professional specifically instructs them to do so. Not all blood tests require fasting. If a doctor or healthcare ...

Recent advances in diabetes detection may help to identify risk earlier. In this article, MNT discusses recent studies that ...

Check your blood sugar first thing in the morning after eight or more hours without food. Testing after meals shows how your body handles the food you've eaten. Check before and after exercise to see ...