A patient is anxious about what his therapist truly thinks about him. Does the patient have a right to review the therapist’s ...

A closely watched clinical trial in Britain that screened blood for early detection of cancer did not show a reduction in diagnoses at later stages of the disease. By Rebecca Robbins and Gina Kolata A ...

Blood tests that detect a protein involved in Alzheimer’s disease could help predict the age at which the disease may strike people long before they develop symptoms, according to a new study. But ...

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Scientists showed in a new study published Thursday that they could use blood draws to build a “clock” for Alzheimer’s disease that could roughly predict when symptoms will develop, findings that ...

If you’ve ever bought a health testing kit for anything from the flu to a UTI, you’re one among many: Home health tests are a multi-billion-dollar global industry. In fact, a new one just became ...

Having a smartphone may be harmful for children younger than 12, according to a new study. The study published Monday in the peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics found that owning a smartphone during ...

Researchers behind a new study say that the methods used to evaluate AI systems’ capabilities routinely oversell AI performance and lack scientific rigor. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

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Researchers at Stockholm University in Sweden and Vanderbilt University in Tennessee studied historic observatory photos to find signs of flashes of light. The researchers then drew a statistical ...