All UK children could be offered screening for type 1 diabetes using a simple finger-prick blood test, say researchers who ...

A new type of blood test using lipids could make it easier to identify children at risk of complications around obesity including type two diabetes, liver and heart disease, say scientists. A new ...

‘Landmark’ study paves the way for type 1 diabetes screening among children - About a quarter of children with type 1 are ...

A new, rapid testing method will greatly help the diagnosis of rare diseases in babies and children, according to research to be presented to the annual conference of the European Society of Human ...

This handheld device is the first that can detect tuberculosis in saliva, in addition to blood and sputum samples, an important breakthrough for testing children and HIV patients, who struggle to ...

Experts said that the finding could lead to a “step change” in the way type 1 diabetes is diagnosed and treated. A landmark ...

Lancet study proves that NHS refusing to screen for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) as part of the newborn heel prick test is costing lives - and taxpayers’ money ...