Remember when a COVID-19 diagnostic test meant waiting in your car for a nurse wearing head-to-toe PPE to shove a long swab down your throat and send the sample to a lab that would take a week or more to return results?
Sep 13, 2021
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden recently reported that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could reduce overdiagnoses and thereby improve prostate cancer screening. Now, the same research group has published a ...
Aug 13, 2021
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With kids returning to school and many adults heading back to the office or traveling, something as simple as a cough or runny nose might lead to panic—and the need for a COVID-19 test. But because of the wide availability ...
Aug 11, 2021
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The chance of detecting the virus that causes COVID-19 increases with more frequent testing, no matter the type of test, a new study found. Both polymerase chain reaction and antigen tests, paired with rapid results reporting, ...
Jun 30, 2021
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Mailing a package of SARS-CoV-2 tests to every household in America and asking people to use them once a week could greatly reduce total infections and mortality at a justifiable cost, a new study led by the Yale School of ...
Mar 9, 2021
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If you're trying to decide whether to have your child tested for COVID-19, talk with your pediatrician, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) suggests.
Jan 18, 2021
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The mass testing of asymptomatic people for COVID-19 in the UK was thrown into question by a recent study. In a pilot in Liverpool, over half the cases weren't picked up, leading some to question whether using tests that ...
Dec 23, 2020
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Under certain conditions, antigen testing using self-collected swabs from the anterior nose may constitute a reliable alternative to antigen testing using nasopharyngeal swabs collected by health professionals. This is the ...
Dec 21, 2020
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Previous studies have shown that African American men are 2.4 times as likely to die from prostate cancer compared to non-Hispanic white men. This, plus a concern that African Americans may develop cancers that are more aggressive, ...
Nov 3, 2020
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Testing remains a vital component of Australia's success in managing COVID-19.
Sep 25, 2020
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