Firms like Function Health and Oura market regular blood tests to people wanting to take their health into their own hands.

A new blood test can identify which individuals of African ancestry carrying high-risk APOL1 gene variants are most likely to ...

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Some companies offer multi-cancer screening blood tests. Would you take a blood test that claimed to look for signs of more than 50 different cancers potentially lurking in your body? If yes, you’re ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Some companies now offer multi-cancer early detection ...

New research shows a highly accurate blood test can predict when Alzheimer’s symptoms may start. The test can estimate the onset of symptoms within a 3 to 4 year margin, researchers said. Another ...

A new blood test could change the outlook for one of the deadliest cancers—pancreatic cancer—by catching it much earlier than ever before. Researchers identified two previously unknown proteins in the ...

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A new kind of blood test promises to find cancer early—sometimes even before symptoms appear. The pitch is compelling: a single sample of blood could scan the body for dozens of different cancers at ...

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