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 Greater Manchester hospital has become the first in the UK to use a new laboratory system designed to reduce test result waiting times. Royal Oldham Hospital's FlexLab X can process up to 15,525 ...

On average when positive, Signatera tests have a 98%-99% rate of accurately predicting the presence of cancer depending on the cancer, and the false-positive rate is less than 2% to 1% depending on ...

Sometimes, they just put it off, said Dr. Antoine Pham, an internal medicine doctor with Thrive Medical. He has started prescribing a new kind of screening — the Shield blood test — for his patients ...

RAPID-CRISPR test quickly and accurately diagnoses acute promyelocytic leukemia, a rare and aggressive blood cancer, with high sensitivity.

Initial tests have produced promising results, having shown that it is able to detect 12 of the most lethal and common ...

To diagnose lung cancer and determine the optimal treatment strategy, physicians typically rely on tissue examination. However, taking biopsies is ...

These types of mistakes are often described as “never events,” a term first coined in 2002 to refer to preventable medical ...

A veterinary technician performed a legal injection of furosemide, but testing details suggest that some of the medication may have missed the horse's vein ...