All UK children could be offered screening for type 1 diabetes using a simple finger-prick blood test, say researchers who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr Michael Sandberg, whose mother had Alzheimer's disease, took part in the trial [BBC] An international trial is examining ...

An international trial is examining whether a finger-prick blood test could be used to help diagnose Alzheimer's disease. The study, involving 1,000 volunteers aged over 60 in the UK, US and Canada, ...

There are indications that a simple finger-prick blood test could, in the future, detect Alzheimer's disease long before the first clinical symptoms become apparent. This is shown by research ...

A finger-prick blood test that can be mailed to a lab may offer a simpler way to detect the brain changes linked to Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study. Researchers tested whether tiny ...

Dr Giovanna Lalli, from LifeArc, says her team are looking at the presence of three proteins in the blood that have been linked to Alzheimer's An international trial is examining whether a ...

A new blood test that detects Alzheimer’s by taking a sample from a finger prick could diagnose the disease at early stages long before symptoms become severe, a new Europe-wide study found. The new ...

The findings of the study published in Nature Medicine journal showed that the test helped identify disease-related changes with 86 per cent accuracy. Just like diabetes, you will now be able to ...

Alzheimer’s disease affects millions worldwide—but confirming a diagnosis is far from simple. Doctors currently rely on costly brain scans or invasive spinal fluid tests to identify the ...

The research is part of the PREDICTOM study, funded by the Innovative Health Initiative Joint Undertaking (IHI JU). Within this study, researchers are investigating whether biomarkers such as p-Tau217 ...