early disease detection

Diabetes Testing Moves Earlier—and Gets More Complex

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By Alyx Arnett For decades, the clinical lab’s contribution to diabetes care followed a familiar script: A patient showed up with symptoms, a clinician ordered an A1C or fasting glucose test, and the lab returned a number confirming the diagnosis. That model is starting to shift. The 2026 American Diabetes Association Standards of Care place … Read more

Is it a superpower? Woman’s nose detected a disease 12 years before doctors could. Know the science behind it

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A retired nurse from Scotland, Joy Milne, has played a crucial role in advancing research on Parkinson’s disease diagnosis, thanks to her extraordinary sense of smell. Milne noticed an unusual change in her husband Les’s body odor more than a decade before he was formally diagnosed with Parkinson’s. What initially seemed like a personal quirk … Read more