One of the most frightening things about Alzheimer's disease is how difficult it is to diagnose early. Now, University of Connecticut researchers report two fast tests for early markers of the disease ...

Galen Centre CEO Azrul Khalib contends that influenza self-test kits could be as successful as Covid-19 kits during the pandemic. Home test kits cannot replace professional medical assessment of those ...

Certain serious fungal infections occur in regions of the United States with specific environments and are often tied to soil ...

The world needs a new pandemic playbook,” headlined City Journal on Nov. 13, because “the old one failed to cope with Covid and may even have caused it.” The author is Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director ...

India is facing a higher surge in infectious diseases this year, according to the latest data shared by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). A study was conducted by the scientists to ...

On a Thursday morning last month, Boniaba Community Health Center in Mali was running a TB screening. There was no doctor in sight. Yet, a mother plagued by coughing got an answer in a matter of ...

Dr Ron Daniels pointed to findings suggesting care was not good enough in about 40 per cent of cases when a child died and an infection was present A RAPID blood test that can fast-track diagnosis of ...

An NHS rapid blood test which will help to diagnose life-threatening diseases like sepsis and meningitis in children is set to be trialled in Newcastle. The 15-minute test can fast-track diagnosis by ...

The two main approaches for discovering disease genes reveal distinct aspects of biology, a new study shows. While both methods are widely used, the research found that they identify different genes, ...

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