Alzheimer’s disease blood test developer Quanterix put forward new clinical data from its Simoa assay, which it described as the largest population-based assessment of the condition’s ...

A road-killed deer recently tested positive for a deadly disease in Wayne County, suggesting an eastern expansion of the fatal illness. Wayne County was added to a list of now 20 counties where ...

A deadly, easily transmissible disease was found in a deer in Decatur County and the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is offering hunters an incentive to harvest more there. A hunter-harvested deer ...

The new blood test for Alzheimer's can rule out the need for PET scans and other forms of imaging in some cases. Diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease is a difficult procedure, but the Food and Drug ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than half of National Kidney Foundation respondents were unaware of genetic testing opportunities. Only 9% ...

On a random October day in 2023, my dad’s brain just stopped working. A year later, he was gone — taken by a disease so rare that most doctors never see a single case: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. If ...

Last month, The US Food and Drug Administration approved a new blood test for assisting the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Produced by Roche, Elecsys pTau181 measures the concentration of a ...

Chronic Wasting Disease affects deer, elk, and similar species and has no known cure or vaccine. Officials advise against consuming meat from deer that appear sick or test positive for the disease.

A diagnostics startup is developing a blood test that can monitor the impact of chronic disease on the body – and investors are taking notice. Curve Biosciences, which has developed Whole Body ...

Exactics, a biotech startup, is developing multiple at-home tests for infectious diseases, starting with a rapid test that will allow users to determine if a tick carries the pathogen that causes Lyme ...