A cross-disciplinary research team led by Hongjie Dai, director of the Materials Institute of Life Sciences and Energy (MILES ...

Two new rapid tests, EndoSure and Endotest, can drastically reduce wait times for a diagnosis of endometriosis—from 9-years ...

Two new tests, EndoSure and Endotest, could drastically reduce the years-long wait for endometriosis diagnoses for millions ...

American medicine runs more than 14 billion tests a year. While some tests can be lifesaving, many are used at the wrong time or on the wrong patient and are useless or even harmful. The medical ...

Function Health, a startup focused on lab testing and body scans for early disease detection, announced Wednesday it has acquired mobile healthcare company Getlabs. Function, which launched in ...

Jay N. Yepuri, MD, MS, FACG, is a board-certified gastroenterologist and member of the Digestive Health Associates of Texas Board of Directors and Executive Committee. A liver function test checks how ...

Ash Wednesday is right around the corner. With the season of Lent comes the inevitable conversation of fasting and the question, “What will you give up for Lent this year?” I was nineteen when I ...

Pulmonary function tests (PFTs), also called lung function tests, are some of the most important, but least understood, tools healthcare providers use to evaluate lung health. Though many people have ...

The start-up Function will send practically anyone to a lab for extensive medical testing, no physical required. Is that a good thing? By Kristen V. Brown As Kimberly Crisp approached middle age, ...

Mario covers technology in health care, including FDA regulation of artificial intelligence; how Medicare pays for health tech; the use of AI in clinical care; mental health chatbots; and consumer ...

Does quantum mechanics really reflect nature in its truest form, or is it just our imprecise way of describing the weird properties of the very small? A famous test that can help answer this question ...

The Maxim machine gun was first introduced to significant combat by the U.S. Army during World War I. In 1912, each regiment received four of these machine guns, believing this quantity would be ...