A company is looking at blood as a possible diagnosis tool for mental illness. Blood tests can check for infections and high cholesterol, but currently, they can’t test for mental illness or pain. A ...

Ohio University’s radiation-free wrist test spotted fracture risk DXA missed — a potential shift in osteoporosis screening.

Creativity is a notoriously hard concept to measure, but researchers have developed a new test that requires only a few minutes to complete. In a study published in the journal PNAS, scientists asked ...

Scientists may have found a way to measure your risk of death. A new study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine posits that a 10-second balance test could help measure your overall risk ...

Animal models of human disease have extremely mixed results, and all too often they do not work well and accomplish their goals of helping humans. 1 One such procedure, the forced swim test, is a ...

According to the Howard County School System?s latest annual report, all schools met "adequate yearly progress" as required by the No Child Left Behind law. Is the test an effective measure of the ...