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09/22/2018 / By RJ Jhonson

Low-cost, chip-based blood test for multiple myeloma may be safer and less painful alternative to bone biopsy

As if the pain of having and living through cancer wasn’t bad enough, diagnosing the disease is, in itself, an ordeal. But invasive biopsies may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a low-cost, chip-based blood test developed by researchers at the University of Kansas (KU), according to a study published in Integrative Biology. […]

08/23/2018 / By David Williams

Scientists close to developing a blood test that can detect cancers

Wouldn’t it be great if you could swing by a pharmacy or visit the nearest health center, get one all-purpose test kit, draw some blood, wait a few minutes, and find out definitively whether or not you have some form of cancer? That’s the dream behind a new research study recently published in the journal […]

03/05/2018 / By David Williams

U.S. Food and Drug Administration issues approval for first blood test for concussions… but is it accurate?

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just finished screening the first diagnostic blood test that can be used to evaluate the severity of what it calls mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) – concussions, to the layperson – and interestingly, it has approved the same for marketing. The blood test is called the Banyan […]

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