Washington, May 18 (ANI): A new, highly sensitive blood test that quickly detects even the lowest levels of malaria parasites in the body could make a dramatic difference for tackling the disease across the world.

Melbourne, May 1 (ANI): Scientists in Australia are working on a blood test that could lead to routine screening for Alzheimer's disease.

London, Apr 30 (ANI): Australian golf legend Greg Norman has criticised golf's anti-doping policies, saying that sport needed to clean up its act by overcoming the lack of blood testing.

Washington, April 25 (ANI): A Cleveland Clinic research has revealed a microbial byproduct of intestinal bacteria contributes to heart disease and serves as an accurate screening tool for predicting future risks of heart attack, stroke and death in persons not otherwise identified by traditional risk factors and blood tests.

Washington, April 8 (ANI): Elevated levels of bilirubin in the blood is said to indicate that something has gone wrong with the liver.

Washington, March 21 (ANI): A team of researchers at the Universities of Oxford and Southampton has discovered that 97 per cent of UK doctors have used 'impure' placebo treatments to patients at least once in their career, while 12pc have used 'pure' placebos.

Wellington, Feb 5 (ANI): Brit tennis ace Andy Murray has called for introducing more blood testing in tennis to avoid the kind of damaging doping scandals that plagued cycling.

London, Jan 19 (ANI): A simple blood test could predict if the most common form of breast cancer will come back after treatment, scientists suggest.

Washington, January 19 (ANI): Doctors can now easily identify trauma patients who are at a greatest risk of death using a simple, inexpensive blood test, according to researchers at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City.

London, December 28 (ANI): Researchers have come up with a controversial lifespan test that claims to tell people how fast they are ageing.

Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 17 (ANI): Many teenage girls are now taking to 'cyber love' due to loneliness, with some ending up pregnant out of wedlock.

Washington, Nov 1 (ANI): A routine blood test may help predict survival in patients diagnosed with Merkel cell carcinoma, a deadly and aggressive form of skin cancer, according to new findings by Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers.

London, October 28 (ANI): U.S. scientists have developed a new blood test for pregnant women that can detect unborn children with Down's syndrome without the risk of miscarriage.

Washington, October 16 (ANI): A new discovery by scientists at the University of York could pave the way for a simple blood test that would detect lung cancer even in its early stages.

London, October 9 (ANI): Scientists have developed a blood test that reads genetic changes like a barcode - and can identify aggressive prostate cancers by their particular pattern of gene activity.

Washington, October 2 (ANI): Researchers believe a simple blood test could one day be a more accurate way to test for the early signs of breast cancer than using mammograms to spot a lump.

Washington, September 27 (ANI): A simple blood test, developed by researchers at Kansas State University, can accurately detect the beginning stages of cancer.

London, September 24 (ANI): A simple blood test could help save the lives of millions of victims who are struck down without warning by heart disease.

Washington, September 18 (ANI): Delivery before 37 full weeks, so-called preterm delivery, is the biggest problem in perinatal medicine today, as it increases the risk of the child being seriously ill in the short and long term.

Washington, September 9 (ANI): For the first time, a new test could help identify and treat individuals at risk of developing potentially deadly calcium deposits in their tissues and blood vessels, according to a study.

London, September 5 (ANI): An air stewardess has been fired and charged after blood tests showed that she was eight times over the legal drinking limit on a UK-bound flight from Dubai.

London, August 29 (ANI): A traffic-light colour-coded blood test can reveal the hidden liver damage caused by drinking alcohol above the recommended limits, experts say.

Washington, August 10 (ANI): Scientists have taken a step toward developing a blood test for Alzheimer's disease, finding a group of markers that hold up in statistical analyses in three independent groups of patients.

Washington, June 22 (ANI): Researchers have found a protein in the blood of pregnant women that can predict if they are likely to have a fetus that doesn't grow properly, and thus has a high risk of stillbirth and long-term health complications.

Washington, June 11 (ANI): Researchers have found a way to identify quickly the 5-10 percent of patients in whom the commonly used painkiller, tramadol, does not work effectively.