An international trial involving 1,000 volunteers will aim to detect biomarkers associated with the condition.

All UK children could be offered screening for type 1 diabetes using a simple finger-prick blood test, say researchers who ...

Cheap blood tests that could spot Alzheimer’s early are set to be given to more than a thousand adults in an effort to ...

The trial seeks to find an easier and less expensive way to detect a disease that affects 1 in 9 people over the age of 65.

Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers measured from finger-prick dried blood samples closely match standard plasma tests and predict CSF pathology with good accuracy, a large-scale study shows.

What if screening for the diseases that cause dementia could start with something as quick as a finger-prick blood test?

Researchers at University College London (UCL) are part of a major international study testing whether a simple finger-prick ...

There are indications that a simple finger-prick blood test could, in the future, detect Alzheimer's disease long before the ...

A finger-prick blood test that can be mailed to a lab may offer a simpler way to detect the brain changes linked to Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study.

A pioneering trial has begun to assess whether a simple finger-prick blood test could offer an early diagnosis for ...

The Bio-Hermes-002 study, involving 1,000 volunteers aged over 60 in the UK, US and Canada, is using finger-prick testing to ...

An international trial is testing whether a simple finger-prick blood test can diagnose Alzheimer’s earlier and more easily.