#screening

Updated American Cancer Society guidance keeps colonoscopy and stool tests as primary screening paths for average-risk adults, while adding new stool-based molecular testing and a blood-based option.

A Nature Medicine research briefing describes gut microbiome changes that track from healthy people to genetically at-risk groups and symptomatic Parkinson’s patients, suggesting earlier screening may be possible.

A research team has shown that short videos of the eye can estimate red blood cell levels and identify anemia more than 80% of the time in an early trial, pointing to a possible low-cost screening tool for settings where

Researchers report that an AI system interpreting standard electrocardiograms accurately identified a major precursor to heart failure in Kenyan patients, pointing to a lower-cost screening option where echocardiography,

A new study argues that depression screening can become more accurate and easier for patients by letting them answer in natural language instead of relying only on standardized rating scales.

A presentation at EHRA 2026 reports that heart failure is common among people whose atrial fibrillation is detected during screening, highlighting the broader clinical burden that can accompany newly found rhythm disease