Anthony Patterson got lucky — twice. His first stroke of good fortune came in 2011, when a fall led him to the emergency room of a local hospital. While he was there, doctors noticed his heart wasn’t ...

Julie Harris had never been tested for lung cancer. A low-dose CT scan, the only recommended screening for adults at risk of developing lung cancer, was not something she’d ever found time to do. But ...

Delfi Diagnostics is launching its first liquid biopsy test, fulfilling the company’s own, years-long prophecy to offer a new blood-based tool for the screening of lung cancer. Its Firstlook Lung test ...

CyPath® Lung test affirmed physician’s assessment that the nodule could be inflammation, not cancer; nodule resolved upon follow-up scan Noninvasive CyPath® Lung performed with 92% sensitivity, 87% ...

A new study from researchers at National Jewish Health and collaborating institutions has found that different patterns seen on lung scans can signal how severe sarcoidosis may be, and how it affects ...

Screening guidelines often fail to pinpoint who’s at risk, and few people who are eligible for screening actually get checked ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE – UVA Health researchers have discovered a potential way to predict which patients with severe COVID-19 are likely to recover well and which are likely to suffer “long-haul” lung ...

SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--bioAffinity Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIAF; BIAFW), a biotechnology company focused on noninvasive diagnostics and early cancer detection, today announced that unit ...

Widely used lung function tests often fail to detect lung disease in Black patients, according to research — and experts are calling for new methods of testing. Spirometry, the most common lung ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. The nation's largest organization for medical examiners has issued a warning about a controversial, centuries-old forensic test that has contributed ...

Removing a patient’s race from an equation used to assess lung function — a change called for by health equity advocates — would mean that the lung disease of nearly half a million Black Americans ...