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(HealthDay)—Long waiting times and unclear test results are the top patient grievances when it comes to visiting the doctor, according to a report published in the June issue of Consumer Reports. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-patients-unclear-results.html Health Fri, 03 May 2013 14:00:01 EST news286807339 Abbott Laboratories is recalling its FreeStyle InsuLinx Blood Glucose Meters after finding that they display and store incorrect test results for dangerously high blood sugar levels. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-abbott-laboratories-recalls-blood-glucose.html Medications Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:14:32 EST news285232462 (AP)—South African officials say they have detected bird flu on an ostrich farm but that it is unrelated to the strain that has killed eight people in China. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-safrica-h7n1-bird-flu-ostrich.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:50:48 EST news284745042 (HealthDay)—As hospitals increasingly forgo pen and paper in favor of "e-records," new research suggests the move is leaving many doctors struggling in a sea of daily communications. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-e-communication-swamping-doctors.html Health Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:40:01 EST news281638716 Following BRCA testing, many women who are non-BRCA carriers undergo risk-reducing procedures and additional ovarian cancer screenings, despite limited data to determine the effectiveness of these interventions among the general population, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-reduction-screening-ovarian-cancer-women.html Cancer Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:00:06 EST news274966977 (AP)—Health officials say four more people have died in the national meningitis outbreak, bringing the number of deaths to 19. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-meningitis-outbreak-deaths.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:44:37 EST news269703869 (Medical Xpress)—A systematic review by UNSW Medicine researchers has found up to 62 per cent of laboratory tests and up to 36 per cent of radiology reports were not being followed up by doctors, for patients attending GPs, clinics or hospital outpatient departments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-doctors-results.html Health Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:58:31 EST news267958705 Routine screening for ovarian cancer is ineffective and at times can do more harm than good, a panel of cancer specialists has concluded. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-routine-screening-ovarian-cancer-failure.html Cancer Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:16:59 EST news266588211 Do you automatically assume that a headache is a brain tumor? Do you worry that a minor cut could lead to flesh-eating bacteria ravaging a limb and requiring massive surgical intervention? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-sick.html Health Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:49:35 EST news264163740 Tens of thousands of Americans taking potent antiretroviral therapies, or ART, to keep their HIV disease in check may not have as much control over the viral infection as previous estimates have suggested, according to results of a study by AIDS experts at Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-hiv-suppression-good-previously-thought.html HIV & AIDS Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:15:12 EST news262188906 Diagnostic tests are increasingly capable of identifying plaques and tangles present in Alzheimer's disease, yet the disease remains untreatable. Questions remain about how these tests can be used in research studies examining potential interventions to treat and prevent Alzheimer's disease. Experts from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will today participate in a panel at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2012 (AAIC 2012) discussing ways to ethically disclose and provide information about test results to asymptomatic older adults. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-penn-expert-ethical-implications-alzheimer.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:01:21 EST news261748863 South Africa is recalling 500,000 HIV test kits it ordered from a South Korean company despite a World Health Organisation (WHO) warning over inconclusive results, the health ministry said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-south-africa-recalls-hiv-kits.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:37:02 EST news261725813 Medical researchers at the University of Alberta reviewed test results from thousands of patients with various types of cancer and discovered that "disorganized" cancers were more difficult to treat and consistently resulted in lower survival rates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-cancers-disorganized-traffic-difficult.html Cancer Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:56:20 EST news259509372 A new study suggests that head impacts experienced during contact sports such as football and hockey may worsen some college athletes' ability to acquire new information. The research is published in the May 16, 2012, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-impacts-contact-sports-college-athletes.html Neuroscience Wed, 16 May 2012 16:00:01 EST news256391926 “I believe that out of anxiety, patients want to know their test results as quickly as possible,” Roman Nelson (’12) said. “Having a medical scan done often comes with profound news, either good or bad, so patients want to know what’s happening in their lives as soon as they can.” http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-student-co-authors-radiology.html Other Wed, 16 May 2012 07:56:02 EST news256373753 (AP) -- Getting AIDS test results from labs to remote villages once took weeks in Mozambique, with the information sent by courier along the impoverished country's terrible roads. The delay could mean death. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-aids-africa.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:10:35 EST news253275007 (AP) -- Olympic doping officials are considering whether to tweak their tests after a recent British study showed green tea might hide testosterone from the standard test used to spot it. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-green-tea-cloud-olympic-doping.html Other Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:46:47 EST news252834400 You've been experiencing severe back pain and weakness in your right leg. Your doctor orders a spinal MRI to help determine the cause. The radiology report diagnoses cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-patients-access-radiology-results.html Other Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:23:14 EST news252602588 (HealthDay) -- For office-based physicians, electronic access to patient imaging and laboratory test results does not decrease -- and may actually increase -- the number of diagnostic tests ordered, according to research published in the March issue of Health Affairs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-electronic-result-access.html Health Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:10:01 EST news250262874 Laboratory-based treatment reminders meant to improve physicians' prescribing habits for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) may not be effective, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The findings indicate that adding information on how to treat patients with CKD to kidney laboratory test results does not provide any benefits. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-physician-dont-kidney-disease-patients.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:24:18 EST news248635447 A new study has found that when parents get tested for breast cancer genes, many of them share their results with their children, even with those who are very young. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study also revealed that most parents think that their children are not distressed when they learn about the test results. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-parents-breast-cancer-genes-results.html Cancer Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:43:30 EST news245306599 The Bowel Cancer Screening Programme in England is on track to cut bowel cancer deaths by its target of 16%, reveals an analysis of the first one million test results, published in Gut. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-bowel-cancer-screening-programme-results.html Cancer Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:52:37 EST news242538729 A new study from Rhode Island Hospital has found that MR enterography (MRE) without the use of an anti-peristaltic agent were as reliable as CT enterography (CTE) in determining the presence of Crohn's disease. Additionally, MRE reduces the patient's exposure to ionizing radiation. The study is now published online in advance of print in the European Journal of Radiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-enterography-effective-ct-crohn-disease.html Other Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:04:06 EST news227354347