News tagged with screening mammograms

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Preventive care: It's free, except when it's not

(AP) -- Bill Dunphy thought his colonoscopy would be free.

Health created Dec 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 8

People perceive medicine to be more vital when it's low-cost, study finds

(Medical Xpress)—People may think it's more vital to take their medicine, if that medicine is cheap. A new study from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University shows consumers believe prices for lifesaving ...

Medications created Feb 01, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

3-D breast screens improve detection and reduce false positives

Three-dimensional breast screens (mammograms) could offer substantial improvements in cancer detection and reducing false positives when used in conjunction with traditional two-dimensional mammograms, according to the results ...

Cancer created Apr 24, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Novel breast screening technology increases diagnostic accuracy

The addition of three-dimensional breast imaging—a technology called tomosynthesis—to standard digital mammography significantly increases radiologists' diagnostic accuracy while reducing false positive recall rates, ...

Other created Nov 20, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0