Doctors should begin screening for heart disease and treating people for high cholesterol levels even younger than before, ...

With March being National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, there’s never been a better time to screen for the disease. CRC ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Routine newborn screening (NBS) has transformed early disease detection. However, traditional biochemical tests limit the range of conditions that can be identified at birth. Next-generation ...

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

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 ...