Some 80% of older adults see the benefit of tests that can give an early warning that a person's memory and thinking abilities have started to decline, a new poll of people age 65 to 80 finds. And 60% think that health care ...
Jul 19, 2023
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The accuracy of fecal immunochemical tests (FITs), which are widely used for bowel cancer screening, have been examined following exposure to different temperatures using laboratory and field experiments by the Bowel Health ...
Jun 20, 2023
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Have you thought about your memory lately? According to the CDC, 11% of people over age 45 have Subjective Cognitive Decline, a form of cognitive impairment that can be one of the earliest noticeable symptoms of Alzheimer's ...
May 23, 2023
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Most high income countries, including the U.K., do not have a national prostate cancer screening program, but instead allow men without symptoms to get a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test if they wish, after talking to ...
May 17, 2023
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Everyone knows that on Mother's Day, Mom's needs come first. But the rest of the year, mothers often put their health care on hold to focus on others.
May 12, 2023
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An exhaustive cost-benefit analysis of population genetic testing published in Annals of Internal Medicine concludes with a recommendation to U.S. health policymakers to adopt routine testing of adults ages 40 and under for ...
May 8, 2023
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Babies born in U.S. hospitals currently undergo routine newborn screening, a laboratory test to identify the risk of up to 60 treatable conditions. But hundreds of genetic disorders, including a growing number of devastating ...
May 8, 2023
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Some 10% of cancers may be hereditary. And thanks to genetic testing, you can now determine your risk.
Apr 20, 2023
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Among individuals who consented to whole-exome sequencing and were identified as carriers of predisposition genes for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) or Lynch syndrome, 39.2% would not have qualified for genetic ...
Apr 18, 2023
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An experimental blood test may be able to catch a dozen different types of cancer with a high degree of accuracy—including some that are particularly tricky to detect, a preliminary study suggests.
Apr 17, 2023
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