The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday approved Guardant Health’s Shield blood test for colon cancer screening. Although it doesn’t replace colonoscopies, doctors are optimistic it might improve screening rates for the second-highest cause of cancer death in the US, according to NBC News. Shield had been available for $895, but FDA approval means … Read more
LONDON: A blood test could help identify those at highest risk of dying from heart failure within the next five years, new Oxford University research conducted in collaboration with an Indian-origin professor has found. The study, funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and published in the ‘European Journal of Heart Failure’ this week, was … Read more
CHICAGO: A study of frozen blood samples has turned up a trove of proteins that may predict several forms of dementia more than 10 years before the disease is diagnosed, researchers from the UK and China reported on Monday. The study, published in the journal Nature Aging, is part of ongoing research from multiple teams … Read more
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