It could enable doctors to diagnose infections such as pneumonia much quicker - without the need for invasive blood tests.

Infectious diseases are a major cause of death worldwide, and diagnosing bacterial infections remains a challenge in medicine ...

Diagnosing some diseases could be as easy as breathing into a tube. MIT engineers have developed a test to detect ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco used a naturally occurring carbon isotope and exhaled CO(2) to catch bacterial infections. MEMPHIS, ...

A quick and easy breath test could mean new hope in the early detection of pancreatic cancer, and medical experts say it could be the biggest breakthrough in the fight against the deadly disease in ...