Infectious diseases are a major cause of death worldwide, and diagnosing bacterial infections remains a challenge in medicine. And doing so reliably is more important than ever, given the increasing ...

Research published in ACS Central Science could help healthcare professionals non-invasively diagnose bacterial infections, using breath-based tests.

Can you hold your breath until you’re almost bursting to take another breath in? This urgent feeling that you need to get more air is called “air hunger”. You may feel this sensation when you exercise ...

It could enable doctors to diagnose infections such as pneumonia much quicker - without the need for invasive blood tests. The post Breath test spots deadly bacterial infections in just minutes ...

Although heart rate and blood pressure readings from breath-holding tests are usually reliably accurate, another vital measurement could be missing a beat, a University of Alberta study shows. Looking ...