While healthy lifestyle intervention and average cholesterol screening should start in childhood, the updated guidelines now recommend an additional screening test and accelerated treatment plan for ...

March is colorectal cancer awareness month. A doctor with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield spoke with WYSO about Ohio cancer ...

Guardant Health markets Shield, an FDA-approved blood test for primary colorectal cancer screening. The Harris Poll conducted the survey from Feb. 24-26, 2026, among 1,189 U.S. adults, ages 45 and ...

Medicare will now cover tests that screen for multiple types of cancer at once, under a new bipartisan law backed by Georgia ...

The latest cholesterol guidelines include three new screening tests: coronary artery calcium, lipoprotein (a), and apolipoprotein B.

FOBT-positive patients who skipped colonoscopy had fourfold higher cancer incidence ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Omer Awan is a practicing physician who covers public health. Lung cancer screening remains strikingly underused, with ...

The survey results reveal strong enthusiasm for blood-based screening options among adults aged 45 and older, the group ...

When David Thau, a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., was 34, he periodically experienced pain in his stomach, irregular bowel movements, blood in his stool and vomiting, and he visited doctors ...

According to the UN data, the estimated incidence of Down syndrome is between 1 in 1,000 -- 1 in 1,100 live births worldwide.

Rishi Sunak has urged men to be checked for prostate cancer as part of a new screening drive. The former prime minister has given his backing to an initiative run by the charity P ...