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.

The dream of Theranos for finger-prick blood tests is now a reality, thanks to the efforts of rival companies. In Austin, Texas, people who fear needles can now undergo routine medical tests using ...

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.

Blood testing company Theranos was once valued at $10 billion, but false claims over its testing abilities led to one of the greatest collapses in the history of the health care industry — and ...

Simple dried blood cards For the finger prick study, Huber and her colleagues collected blood samples from 77 memory clinic patients at the ACE Alzheimer Center in Barcelona, Spain.

Today in the U.S., most of the 25 million people with type 2 diabetes do not take insulin. They control their blood sugar with exercise, diet, and sometimes medications such as metformin.

Sight Diagnostics believes it can succeed where Theranos failed, developing rapid finger-prick blood tests, but its approach is nothing like that of the failed Silicon Valley startup chronicled in ...