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Blood tests that look for foetal DNA in the pregnant mother's blood can accurately spot the sex of the baby, a study finds.

Blood tests designed to detect active tuberculosis are inaccurate and should be banned according to the World Health Organization.

GPs should offer more blood tests to diagnose ovarian cancer earlier, according to new guidelines for the NHS.

(University of Rhode Island) While most blood tests require shipping a vial of blood to a laboratory for analysis and waiting several days for the results, a new device invented by a team of engineers and students at URI uses just a pinprick of blood in a portable device that provides results in less than 30 minutes.

Preliminary research suggests that blood tests could be used to test for Alzheimer's disease.

Military personnel were more likely to become infected with the pandemic 2009 H1N1 influenza virus than the general population, researchers in Singapore found.

New tuberculosis blood tests are significantly more sensitive than the tuberculin skin test, researchers said.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A new generation of blood tests can quickly and reliably show if a person is having a heart attack soon after chest pains start - a time when current tests are not definitive, two studies found....

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- Common blood tests for food-specific serum immunoglobulins are often wrong about allergies and aren't a good basis for restricting youngsters' diets, researchers said here.