If you're having chest pain, your doctor can test you for a heart attack. If you're having hip pain, your doctor could test for osteoarthritis. But what if you're depressed? Or anxious? Currently ...

In a major leap for genetic diagnostics, scientists from the University of Melbourne and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) have developed a groundbreaking rapid blood test that can ...

The US Food and Drug Administration approved a novel tool Tuesday that uses genetic testing to help assess whether certain people are at risk of developing opioid use disorder. The AutoGenomics AvertD ...

Researchers in a Johns Hopkins Children's Center-led study that used genetic material from human blood and lab-grown brain cells say they have made progress in developing a blood test to identify ...

If a baby seems normal at birth but soon appears listless, fails to gain weight, and suffers from jaundice, vomiting and diarrhea, his mother can hardly be expected to know that he may lack the enzyme ...

A team of medical researchers based in the University of Policlinico Hospital in Milan, Italy claim that they have discovered biomarkers for bipolar patients with and without psychosis. The team's ...

Johns Hopkins researchers say they’re getting closer to developing a blood test that would identify changes in the brain associated with psychiatric and neurological disorders — an advancement that ...

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH, MIKE. FIVE ON YOUR HEALTH TONIGHT. A RECORD BREAKING YEAR FOR OPIOID DEATHS IN MASSACHUSETTS. HERE TO EXPLAIN IS DOCTOR ALI RAJA, DEPUTY CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ...