A new blood test was found to detect colon cancer with more than 80% accuracy — and to rule it out for 90% of healthy people. Doctors speak about how this could improve screening rates and outcomes.

A positive: This is one of the most common blood types (35.7% of the U.S. population has it). Someone with this type can give blood only to people who are A positive or AB positive.

O positive blood is the most common blood type in the United States; approximately thirty-eight percent of the United States population has this type. Individuals with O positive blood can receive ...

Should you be concerned? If you don’t know your blood type, you’re not alone. In the UK, O positive is the most common, followed by A positive.

Type A blood was more common in some parts of Europe, while type B was more prevalent in China and India. Type AB is the rarest of the groups but is most common in Japan, Korea, and some parts of ...

The blood type's name, Gwada negative, which refers to the patient's origins, and "sounds good in all languages", has been popular with the experts, said Thierry Peyrard, a medical biologist at ...

Doctors explain which blood type is more susceptible to norovirus, also known as the 24-hour flu and stomach bug. Plus, how one gene mutation helps protect from it.

At some point in your life you have probably learned your blood type, before forgetting it and guessing the most-common blood group (O). But even if you know your blood type, in very rare cases it ...

Shortages and trauma cases leave hospitals with dangerously low stock of O-negative and O-positive blood, prompting urgent ...

After adjusting for sex and other factors, the team found that people with blood type O — the most common blood type — had a 12% lower risk of suffering a stroke compared to other blood types ...