New Finger Prick Blood Test Rivals Brain Scans for Alzheimer’s Diagnosis

A new finger prick test claims to detect Alzheimer’s with 91% accuracy using p-tau217 biomarkers. Learn how this accessible ...
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The FDA Just Approved Another At-Home Test For STIs — This One For Syphilis

Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the first at-home, OTC test to detect syphilis — a much-needed diagnostic tool for an infectious disease that has experienced a spike in ...
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Theranos gets unnecessary FDA clearance for its cheap, fingerstick blood tests

Theranos, the 12-year-old Palo Alto-based company working on a smaller, cheaper, alternative to common lab blood tests, has received its first voluntary FDA 510(k) clearance, for its herpes simplex 1 ...
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MeMed Completes Development of First-Ever Fingerstick Host-Response Test for Rapid Differentiation of Bacterial and Viral Infections

-MeMed BV Flex™ simultaneously measures multiple host proteins, paired with machine learning, to deliver highly accurate results in 15 minutes from just a few drops of blood- -Designed for use in ...
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Prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening from fingerstick blood: Initial validation of a point-of-care (POC) test.

Effects of a deep learning network on imaging quality of low-b-value diffusion–weighted imaging and lesion detection in prostate cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO Annual ...