A study that integrated robust smoking cessation programs into an organized low-dose CT (LDCT) lung cancer screening program found that the inclusion of both interventions has the potential to decrease mortality rates while ...
Oct 16, 2017
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Most Australian women are currently having more Pap smears than their health requires, according to new research led by a University of New South Wales academic.
Jul 26, 2013
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The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) found insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for primary hypertension in asymptomatic children and adolescents. Hypertension in children ...
Oct 7, 2013
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Cervical cancer is often thought of as a disease that primarily affects young women. Because of this, many older women fail to keep up with appropriate screening as they age. While current guidelines indicate that screening ...
May 1, 2017
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One in two men and one in three women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, and more than 18 million cancer survivors are alive today, according to the American Cancer Society.
Jun 13, 2023
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Investigators have implemented an automated health maintenance tool created by the National Kidney Foundation into electronic medical records to prompt primary care physicians to screen for chronic kidney disease (CKD) in ...
Nov 2, 2023
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Colon cancer develops slowly. Precancerous lesions usually need many years to turn into a dangerous carcinoma. They are well detectable in an endoscopic examination of the colon called colonoscopy and can be removed during ...
Mar 1, 2013
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Researchers used electronic health records to identify Group Health patients who weren't screened regularly for cancer of the colon and rectum—and to encourage them to be screened. This centralized, automated approach doubled ...
Mar 4, 2013
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In the last few decades, dozens of new breast cancer drugs—from chemotherapies to targeted compounds—have become available for clinical use, and mammogram technology has gone from film to digital. But are the changes ...
Jan 9, 2018
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Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm—swelling of the major artery in the abdomen, which can cause sudden death if it ruptures—may not substantially reduce deaths from the condition, according to a Swedish cohort study ...
Jun 15, 2018
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