Nature

Elizabeth Holmes film enthralls — but her legacy haunts science

Diagnostic start-ups inch towards the goal of Holmes’s failed company, Theranos, to run a multitude of tests on drops of ...
BreakingAC

AOAC Use-Dilution Test Explained: How Disinfectants Are Proven to Kill Salmonella, Staph and Pseudomonas

A disinfectant label makes a short promise: it kills Salmonella, Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa within a ...

What Happened to Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos? The Fraud, Conviction, and Prison Sentence

A Stanford dropout raised hundreds of millions of dollars on bold promises. She ultimately landed at the center of one of the ...

Dear Doctor: Which prostate test should I trust when the results tell different stories?

I am 68 years old and have an enlarged prostate and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). I’ve been taking tamsulosin for about ...

What is ureaplasma and could it be behind your unexplained UTI symptoms that keep coming back?

Ureaplasma causes UTI-like symptoms that standard tests miss. Here is what it is and when to ask for testing.
health

Ureaplasma Is One of the Most Common Bacteria Nobody Has Ever Heard Of and Here Is What to Know

Ureaplasma lives naturally in the respiratory and urogenital tracts of both men and women. An estimated 40% to 80% of sexually active people carry it without ever knowing, and without ever ...

Ureaplasma affects up to 80% of sexually active people and most doctors skip the test. Here's why

Ureaplasma is the under-the-radar bacteria your gynecologist probably isn't testing for.

This Isn’t Your Dad’s Prostate Test

IF GETTING A screening test for prostate cancer isn’t on your radar, it’s probably because the government guidelines ...

Where Is Elizabeth Holmes Now, 4 Years After Her Fraud Conviction? Inside the Theranos Founder’s Life in Prison

Elizabeth Holmes founded the blood-testing startup Theranos before being convicted of fraud and sentenced to federal prison ...