New options for testing and treating some of the most common sexually transmitted diseases are becoming available.

The start-up Function will send practically anyone to a lab for extensive medical testing, no physical required. Is that a ...

New federal guidance is expanding testing for cervical cancer with a self-collection method. Dr. Mara Gordon speaks to NPR about why this option might become popular for screening for HPV.

As we get into another winter holiday season, COVID is still part of our lives. And although it's hard to predict exactly what this year's cold, flu and coronavirus season will look like, experts want ...

Famed biohacker Bryan Johnson and his Blueprint team devised this measure of harmful plastic particles in your blood.

Testing a person’s blood for a type of protein called phosphorylated tau, or p-tau, could be used to screen for Alzheimer’s disease with “high accuracy,” even before symptoms begin to show, a new ...

This LetsGetChecked finger-prick test checks for triglycerides and total, HDL, and LDL cholesterol. It also checks your A1C levels and lipoprotein (a), which is a type of LDL that’s mostly hereditary ...

I reassured him and sent him to get another blood specimen drawn without a tourniquet. Why? Because I suspected that the ...