A new blood test could replace the brain scans and spinal taps currently used to diagnose Alzheimer's disease.

Pulmonary function tests are a group of noninvasive breathing tests that measure how much air your lungs can hold, how quickly you can move air in and out and how efficiently your lungs transfer ...

Genetic testing is a minimally invasive medical test that doctors use to identify genetic mutations or variants that can lead to certain diseases or conditions. Doctors use various types of genetic ...

For fitness-minded folks, muscle testing can sound pretty intriguing. But it turns out that it has little to do with fitness...or even muscles. On a basic level, muscle testing looks at a muscle and ...

So much is happening inside your body during pregnancy. You might wonder what your baby will look like or what stage of development they are in. Most pressing of all, you may question if everything is ...

The anti-doping program targeting athletes using banned substances got underway Jan. 30 when the Olympic Villages opened.

Cancer is a condition where some of the body’s cells grow and divide in a way that can be difficult to manage. Typically, the growth and division of cells is tightly managed and there are many genes ...

For decades, female hormone levels were measured using blood tests. 1 But blood sampling is invasive, expensive and is, at times, logistically difficult. Hence, there was a shift towards more ...