News tagged with test results


You could be sick ... but probably not

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?

Health created Aug 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Electronic test result access does not reduce test ordering

(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 ...

Health created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Green tea could cloud Olympic doping tests

(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.

Other created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

HIV suppression not as good as previously thought, largest study of viral-load blood tests show

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 ...

HIV & AIDS created Jul 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast