http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress) -- Colleges, employers, and the military all use aptitude tests to predict how well someone might do. In recent years, some critics of these tests have said there isn’t much difference in performance above a certain level—that, above a certain threshold, everyone is more or less the same. Now, a new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, the authors find that this isn’t true. Instead, the higher your score, the better you perform later. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-aptitude.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:16:10 EST news227517342 A new study of U.S. veterans ages 70 and older finds that the healthiest get the most benefit from current colon cancer screening methods. However, for many less healthy veterans the burdens of screening may outweigh the benefits. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-blood-colon-cancer-screening-beneficial.html Cancer Mon, 09 May 2011 17:00:01 EST news224177471