On a special episode (first released on November 14, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: DIY medical tests offer the convenience of monitoring your health at home, but they also come with ethical and ...

Many of us have done countless rapid antigen tests (RATs) over the course of the pandemic. Testing ourselves at home has become second nature. But there's also a growing worldwide market in medical ...

A revolutionary new medical test highlighted in a study in Nature Medicine could transform infection diagnostics forever. This new metagenomic sequencing test can detect a broad range of ...

The world’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems are essentially cheating their way through medical tests, achieving impressive scores not through genuine medical knowledge but by exploiting ...

CT scans, or CAT scans, are widely used to get internal images of the body and diagnose dangerous medical conditions — but they could pose a hidden risk. A new study from the University of California ...

You need more medical care as you get older. But how can you tell if it's necessary-or a waste? If you're lucky, you trust your doctors completely. You respect their expertise and follow their ...

Heart disease is becoming increasingly common and can affect people of all ages. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it remains the leading cause of death worldwide, claiming nearly 17.9 ...

A study of nearly 1,000 social media posts about direct-to-consumer medical tests found that most downplayed the risks and ...

If a medical test result is inconclusive, the sample did not provide enough information to confirm a positive or negative result. A person may need another test. People can have various medical tests ...

FORT LIBERTY, NC – The U.S. Army Medical Test and Evaluation Activity (USAMTEAC) carried out an Operational Test (OT) of a new version of the medical oxygen concentrator (MOC) at Fort Liberty, NC.