New guidelines aim to lower LDL, or "bad" cholesterol, even younger than before.

Is point-of-care (POC) glycated hemoglobin (A1c) testing the best choice for diabetes screening? The option is an attractive one; POC A1c testing provides the convenience of rapid results in a single ...

Testing a person’s blood for a type of protein called phosphorylated tau, or p-tau, could be used to screen for Alzheimer’s disease with “high accuracy,” even before symptoms begin to show, a new ...

In July, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new blood-based test to screen for colorectal cancer (CRC). The FDA's approval of Shield (Guardant Health) marks a notable achievement, as ...

Cancer screening is at a turning point. For decades, most tests focused on one form of the disease — like mammograms for breast cancer or colonoscopies for colorectal cancer — but new advances have ...

It’s an alternative to the dreaded pap smear, and you can do it yourself right at home.

Testing for high-risk human papillomaviruses every five years – even with a self-collected sample – is the “preferred screening strategy” for cervical cancer starting at age 30, according to a new ...

Women and people with cervixes should have the option to use a self-swab human papillomavirus (HPV) test as part of a cervical cancer screen, the United States Preventative Services Task Force said in ...