The American Cancer Society has added blood tests every three years as a new option for colorectal cancer screening, in addition to colonoscopy and stool tests. While invasive, colonoscopy remains the ...

On May 27, the American Cancer Society published updated screening guidelines for colorectal cancer, officially adding Guardant Health’s FDA-approved Shield blood test to its list of approved ...

Staying strong may be one of the biggest secrets to living longer — especially for older women. A major study of more than 5,000 women found that simple signs of muscle strength, like a firm hand grip ...

Here’s a quick mobility test for you: Can you reach one arm behind and up your back and the other arm over your shoulder and down your back so your hands meet? This simple test—often called the back ...

Background Cognitive impairment is common in multiple sclerosis (MS), and visual memory impairments are increasingly considered clinically important, yet still underappreciated. Objective To compare ...

Federated learning (FL) has the potential to boost deep learning in neuroimaging but is rarely deployed in real-world scenarios, where its true potential lies. We propose FLightcase, a new FL toolbox ...

The blood biomarker p-tau217 has "shown the most promise in detecting Alzheimer's in the brain," researchers of a new study say. Reading time 3 minutes Your blood might someday reveal much about the ...

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Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Having a slower TUG time and standing on one leg for ...

WashU researchers have created a model that can seemingly predict a person's symptoms of Alzheimer's within a few years. Reading time 3 minutes Sickness and death are inevitable, but many of us will ...

Depression and anxiety in patients with Huntington disease (HD) were associated with an increased risk for HD progression and all-cause mortality, but antidepressant initiation was linked to a reduced ...