A mailing or phone call to help patients get screened for colorectal cancer significantly increases their chances of actually getting tested, according to a study published in the January issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers ...
Jan 28, 2013
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A new study published today in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC) suggests that allowing bedside nurses to independently order testing for C. difficile significantly decreased the amount of time to receive test ...
May 11, 2023
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Group Health patients with a positive screening test for colon cancer (a stool test or sigmoidoscopy) tended to be more likely to get the recommended follow-up test, a diagnostic colonoscopy, if nurse navigators contacted ...
Nov 10, 2014
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A panel of Food and Drug Administration advisers has voted to endorse an experimental stool test that uses DNA to detect colon cancer and precancerous growths.
Mar 27, 2014
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People living in poverty are less likely to be screened regularly for colorectal cancer—and more likely to develop the disease and die from it. How to end these disparities—and raise screening rates, lower disease rates, ...
Jun 16, 2014
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Cryptosporidium is a leading cause of diarrhea in children under two years of age in low-resource settings and is an important cause of child death and malnutrition, globally speaking. There is no vaccine and current drugs ...
Dec 11, 2020
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