September is Newborn Screening Awareness Month, highlighting the importance of early detection and intervention for newborns. Here, Dr. Joshua Baker, attending physician in genetics, genomics and ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a new blood test that can spot colon cancer. In late May, an FDA advisory panel had voted 7-2 that the benefits outweigh the risks when using ...

New sparQ™ Lysis Kit isolates high-quality, double-stranded genomic DNA from DBS punches for PCR-free whole-genome sequencing workflows in less than 50 minutes Quantabio, a leading provider of robust ...

May 9 (UPI) --Blood tests could catch as many as half of cancers at an earlier, more treatable stage, a new study says. If conducted every year or every other year, the multi-cancer early detection ...

A home finger-prick test promises to catch hidden cardiometabolic risks in young adults, if paired with hands-on guidance and smarter support systems. Study: Feasibility of self-administered dried ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Cancer has always been a major health concern for women, as in most cases, doctors say early detection could have yielded favourable treatment results. According to oncologists, cancer screening blood ...

The blood test also had a sensitivity and specificity of 92.3% and 92.6% for participants who do not have breast cancer. The results were consistent for women with dense breast tissue and non-dense ...

This July 2022 photo shows a lab in Lansing, Mich., where the state health department tests blood from newborns for more than 50 rare diseases. (Joey Cappelletti/Report for America via AP) (CN) — A ...

(RTTNews) - Savara Inc. (SVRA), a biopharmaceutical company, Thursday announced that it has introduced the aPAP ClearPath Dried Blood Spot Test in the U.S. This new test builds on its prior ...