Virtually every aspect of your health can be traced back to your microbiome. But some tests are better than others.

Learn how a simple blood test can predict Crohn’s disease years before symptoms appear, enabling earlier diagnosis and ...

A newly identified metabolite in human feces improves immunotherapy and could radically change the treatment of lung cancer.

But you’ll need to test more frequently, every one to three years instead of every 10 years for a colonoscopy. Anyone with an ...

Alice Norris was pregnant with her daughter when she noticed blood in her stool, which she initially put down to haemorrhoids ...

Elizabeth Holmes founded the blood-testing startup Theranos before being convicted of fraud and sentenced to federal prison.

Stool DNA testing climbed sharply after the pandemic began while colonoscopy and fecal immunochemical test use fell, a study of nearly 25 million privately insured Blue Cross Blue Shield beneficiaries ...

Regular stool tests already used in NHS care, combined with dietary information, could help identify people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) at higher risk of relapse, a major study appearing in ...

Regular stool tests already used in NHS care, combined with dietary information, could help identify people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) at higher risk of relapse, a major study suggests.

In a recent study, people with osteoporosis had higher levels of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) in their blood compared to patients who didn’t have osteoporosis. The link was strongest in young women with ...

There’s new progress in the battle against Alzheimer’s disease. About 1 in 9 US seniors has Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia, which slowly impairs memory, thinking skills and the ability ...

The tests have not been approved by federal regulators, but that hasn’t stopped patients from wanting them — and doctors from worrying. By Nina Agrawal In the spring of 2021, the cancer field was ...