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Blood test results from Whitehorse General Hospital may be delayed in the coming days, as the hospital reports that some of ...
In a post on its Facebook page on Wednesday, Yukon Hospitals said Whitehorse General is prioritizing urgent needs and ...
A revolution in oncology could help the 18 million cancer survivors in the U.S. and bolster Guardant Health, Natera and Exact Sciences.
We have all had a blood test before, but have you ever wondered what happens once the needle is removed and the vial is sent ...
A new spit test for prostate cancer which can be done at home may be better than current testing methods, a study suggests. Experts have developed a simple saliva test which analyses genetic ...
A novel blood test that detects a key biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) could help physicians more accurately determine the presence and track disease progression. The test measures levels ...
Now, a new blood test is offering hope after a study showed it not only helps diagnose Alzheimer's, but can figure out how far it's progressed. The study was published just last week in Nature ...
Instead of relying on painful spinal taps and expensive brain scans, these blood tests are heralded as a new, less invasive and time-consuming way to determine risk and aid in an earlier diagnosis ...
A combined blood test for cognitive decline has a 90% accuracy rate in determining whether memory loss is due to Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains.
To that end, Election Bureau staff on Monday started what is expected to be a weeklong process to test each of the county’s 900 touch screen voting machines and 350 counting scanners that will ...
He has started prescribing a new kind of screening — the Shield blood test — for his patients who are hesitant to get a colonoscopy. For a decade, we've had stool collection kits like Cologuard.
Image Credit: vectorfusionart / Shutterstock Can one blood test someday inform personalized asthma treatment? Millions live with asthma, yet the symptoms vary significantly from person to person ...