Most of the bacteria residing in the human upper gastrointestinal tract is the friendly sort. But Helicobacter pylori, if it gets a foothold, can cause pain, bloating, ulcers, and even stomach cancer.

Earlier this year, we found out that dogs can be trained to successfully detect cancer on the breath of humans — but we’re still not sure exactly what smell it is ...

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced that it has developed a portable breath sensor that can extract and quickly measure the concentration of only specified gas components, such as ammonia, that ...

Acetone may be best known as a sharp-smelling solvent found in nail polish remover, but inside your body it can tell an important story about health. In fact, the amount of acetone in your breath can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A modified surgical face mask ask analyzes a person's breath to look for gases that are associated with kidney disease, ...

Exhaled breath contains chemical clues to what's going on inside the body, including diseases like lung cancer. And devising ways to sense these compounds could help doctors provide early diagnoses -- ...

BOULDER, Colo. (KUSA/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A group of physicists said they developed a device that can detect diseases from nothing but a patient's breath. Qizhong Liang, a physicist at the University ...

Surgical face masks help prevent the spread of airborne pathogens and therefore were ubiquitous during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, a modified mask could also protect a wearer by detecting health ...

A team led by a researcher at Penn State has developed a sensor that can help diagnose diabetes and prediabetes on-site in a few minutes using just a breath sample. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — In the U.S., ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Each exhaled breath carries distinct signatures of human activity - quick and shallow during exercise, deep and regular in sleep, irregular while speaking. These breathing ...