by Kristin Samuelson, Northwestern University After a patient is diagnosed with lymphoma—an often-treatable type of cancer that attacks the lymph nodes, spleen, thymus, bone marrow and more—the natural next steps are determining the patient’s survival outlook and deciding the best course of treatment. But current methods of doing so remain inaccurate or invasive, often involving...
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Blood test is highly accurate at identifying Alzheimer’s before symptoms arise
Posted Yesterday Up to two decades before people develop the characteristic memory loss and confusion of Alzheimer’s disease, damaging clumps of protein start to build up in their brains. Now, a blood test to detect such early brain changes has moved one step closer to clinical use. Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report that they...
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Routine blood test could lead to earlier diabetes diagnosis
Posted Yesterday The results of random plasma glucose (RPG) tests, which are commonly measured as part of routine outpatient laboratory testing, could help physicians identify individuals at high risk for type 2 diabetes for screening earlier than is done in current practice, according to research published online in the journal PLOS ONE. “We found that...
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Finger-prick blood test could help reduce antibiotic use for some patients
by University of Oxford A simple finger-prick blood test could help prevent unnecessary prescribing of antibiotics for people with the lung condition chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a new study by researchers from Cardiff University, University of Oxford and King’s College London. With funding from the National Institute for Health Research, the team demonstrated that using a CRP finger-prick blood test resulted in 20%...
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Doctors, materials scientists hope a blood test will encourage more colon cancer screenings
by Nathan Collins, Stanford University Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. and a growing problem around the world, but not because it’s a particularly difficult cancer to detect and halt. The problem, doctors and researchers believe, is that not enough people are being screened for early signs of the disease, either because they do not know the...
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Researchers develop groundbreaking test for PTSD
A cutting-edge blood test discovered by Indiana University School of Medicine researchers could help more accurately diagnose military veterans and other people experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder, and potentially provide more precise treatments and prevention. A study led by psychiatry professor Alexander Niculescu, MD, Ph.D., and published this week in the high-impact SpringerNature journal Molecular Psychiatry,...
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Towards a blood test for early-stage liver disease
Scientists looked for early detection method for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) Plasma proteins of NAFLD patients were analyzed by mass spectrometry Six proteins were detected in the blood associated with the early stages of NAFLD Protein PIGR identified as candidate biomarker for liver damage tests One in four people in Western and Asian societies...
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Blood test detects Alzheimer’s damage before symptoms
A simple blood test reliably detects signs of brain damage in people on the path to developing Alzheimer’s disease—even before they show signs of confusion and memory loss, according to a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Germany. Credit: CC0 Public Domain...
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How the New Blood Test for Menopause Can Help Women
Women who want to know if they have entered menopause — or when they will — may be able to find out with a new blood test. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently granted approval to the PicoAMH Elisa test. It’s produced by Ansh Labs. The test works by measuring anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH),...
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New blood test that can tell if someone is having a heart attack is faster than ever and 100% accurate, reveals US study
The new test used can diagnose a heart attack faster than ever and is 100% accurate Measures troponins proteins released by damaged heart cells during an attack In typically healthy people, troponin levels are low enough to be undetectable The breakthrough means doctors are able to diagnose and treat patients sooner A simple blood test...