This World TB Day, we have new rapid near-point-of-care molecular tests being deployed. These use tongue swabs to help end TB ...

Scientists may have sniffed out a breakthrough when detecting Alzheimer’s. The degenerative disease, which affects millions ...

Duke Health researchers say a nasal swab may detect Alzheimer’s signals long before symptoms appear, offering hope for ...

After decades of slow progress in understanding and developing effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, scientists are ...

Biohackers live by the mantra, “Test, don’t guess” — figure out how well your cells and organs are aging, so you know the lifestyle changes to make and the supplements to take for a longer, healthier ...

Alzheimer’s disease is notoriously difficult to detect early, often diagnosed only after memory and cognitive decline have ...

Alzheimer's disease affects millions of people worldwide, yet the illness is hardest to catch at the very beginning, when new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the first tests that allows patients to self-collect samples to screen for human papillomavirus (HPV) will soon be ...

Diagnosing precisely what type of asthma a child has and fine-tuning the treatment for it involves an invasive procedure under general anesthesia. For children with mild asthma, it's just not worth ...

There are roughly 225,000 new cases of lung cancer every year in the United States. Early diagnosis and treatment play a large role in improving outcomes. A recently developed nasal swab test could ...