A high-resolution ultrasound-based device demonstrated excellent accuracy in detecting elevated white blood cell (WBC) counts in cerebrospinal fluids, showing promise as a non-invasive screening tool ...

Clinicians lack methods for early detection of sepsis, a dysregulated response to infection that can result in life-threatening organ failure if treatment is delayed. Research published in The FASEB ...

A simple PCR of mouth rinse may serve as a useful non-invasive test in diagnosing Pneumocystis pneumonia compared with ...

"[We] have conducted a large individual participant data meta-analysis and shown that screening strategies using sequential application of simple NITs like FIB-4 or NFS followed by LSM-VCTE achieve ...

For children with suspected inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a chronic, relapsing condition of the gastrointestinal tract, ...

Non-invasive prenatal tests (NIPTs) are increasingly an integral part of screening during pregnancies across the world. Research from Amsterdam UMC shows that a pregnant woman's genetic background ...

A new study showed that a non-invasive imaging test can help identify patients with coronary artery blockage or narrowing who need a revascularization procedure. The findings were published as a ...

When Erica Barnell was an MD/PhD student at Washington University in St. Louis, she met a woman who had stage four colorectal cancer (CRC). The woman was only 52 years old—more than a decade younger ...

The often dreaded colonoscopy could become less common as the accuracy of non-invasive detection tools improves, giving people more options for screening, according to a recent study in the ...

A non-invasive test for womb cancer could be rolled out nationwide after encouraging trial results in Leicester. The ECctDNA test, which looks for fragments of cancer in blood, has been developed at ...