Timely diagnosis of debilitating and often deadly brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s remains largely elusive, though in recent years several teams of scientists have reported potential ...

If you're having chest pain, your doctor can test you for a heart attack. If you're having hip pain, your doctor could test for osteoarthritis. But what if you're depressed? Or anxious? Currently ...

In the brain, Alzheimer’s is characterized by two proteins, amyloid beta and tau, that become dysfunctional, forming plaques ...

Amydis has received $2.5 million to continue mapping toxic deposits of TDP-43 in retinal tissue and develop an eye test for ALS.

In a major leap for genetic diagnostics, scientists from the University of Melbourne and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) have developed a groundbreaking rapid blood test that can ...

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 ...

If a baby seems normal at birth but soon appears listless, fails to gain weight, and suffers from jaundice, vomiting and diarrhea, his mother can hardly be expected to know that he may lack the enzyme ...

A team of medical researchers based in the University of Policlinico Hospital in Milan, Italy claim that they have discovered biomarkers for bipolar patients with and without psychosis. The team's ...

Genetics is just one of several factors thought to influence personality disorder development. Life experiences, family dynamics, coping mechanisms, and social learning may all be contributing factors ...