Firms like Function Health and Oura market regular blood tests to people wanting to take their health into their own hands.

Elaine Chen covers biotech, co-writes The Readout newsletter, and co-hosts STAT’s weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud. You can reach Elaine on Signal at elaineywchen.70. A major Alzheimer’s ...

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A single blood draw and a patient’s age may be enough to estimate when Alzheimer’s disease symptoms will appear, potentially ...

“Blood testing for PFAS can be very informative, especially for community members whose water, soil, food and air have been affected by PFAS pollution,” she said. “Knowledge of PFAS levels allows the ...

There’s more history in your blood types than you think, and it didn’t begin with humans. Here’s what we know about them, ...