A finger-prick blood test can accurately identify key Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarkers without the need for temperature or storage control measures, results of a new pilot study suggest. "The study ...

A simple finger prick blood test may help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, according to research revealed this week at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) in Amsterdam. The blood ...

A new finger-prick test for Alzheimer's disease has shown similar accuracy to traditional venous blood sampling techniques. The corresponding study was presented on October 30th at the Clinical Trials ...

Researchers say they’re one step closer to being able to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease using a finger prick blood test. The test has the potential to be used at home and reach more people, they said.

A simple finger prick blood test may be the next medical advancement in diagnosing Alzheimer’s. It might even make it possible to test at home, according to new research out Wednesday. “This is so ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers collected venous and finger prick blood samples from memory clinic patients and tested for ...

A definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease now requires a series of complicated and expensive imaging scans that look for abnormal protein plaques and tangles in the brain. But in the near future, ...

A finger-prick blood test to diagnose the deadliest form of stroke might be twice as effective at spotting it than using a patient’s symptoms alone. The test, which works similarly to a lateral flow ...

A new finger-prick blood test could help improve the diagnosis of bipolar disorder, which affects 1.3 million people in the UK. It takes an average of nine-and-a-half years to be diagnosed with ...