Genetics
FDA OKs mental disability blood test for infants
The Food and Drug Administration has cleared a first-of-a-kind blood test that can help predict intellectual disabilities in infants by analyzing their genetic code.
Jan 17, 2014
0
0
Page 31 - News tagged with test screening
Oncology & Cancer
HPV home tests could identify cancer risk
HPV self-testing is as effective as tests done by doctors, according to a Lund University study. Simple HPV home tests could therefore complement existing screening programmes, and identify more women at risk for cervical ...
Dec 18, 2013
0
0
Diabetes
Simple blood test could ID people at risk of diabetes
(Medical Xpress)—Medical researchers with the University of Alberta played an important role in a Massachusetts General Hospital-led discovery that a blood test could pinpoint those at risk of developing diabetes—more ...
Dec 13, 2013
0
0
Oncology & Cancer
Cervical cancer screening overused in some groups of women
For the past ten years, clinicians throughout the United States have been performing unnecessary Pap tests for cervical cancer screening in certain groups of women, according to a researcher from Huntsman Cancer Institute ...
Nov 25, 2013
0
0
Psychology & Psychiatry
No routine mental tests for seniors—at least not yet, panel says
(HealthDay)—Physicians give screening tests to older adults who show signs of mental decline, and some experts have theorized that all seniors might benefit from routine memory testing. But proposed guidelines from a U.S. ...
Nov 5, 2013
0
0
Oncology & Cancer
Routine smear test in women under 25 would cause more harm than good
A Cancer Research UK study shows that the potential benefits of a national cervical cancer screening programme for women under the age of 25 are outweighed by the harms, according to research presented at the National Cancer ...
Nov 4, 2013
0
0
Oncology & Cancer
High Medicare spending on prostate cancer screenings, but little benefit for older men
Prostate cancer screening has little benefit for men aged 75 and older, yet over three years, the Medicare fee-for-service program spent $447 million annually on PSA-based screenings—one-third of which was for men in the ...
Oct 4, 2013
0
0
Oncology & Cancer
New early detection test for prostate cancer: Mi-Prostate Score test improves on PSA for predicting cancer
More than 1 million men will undergo a prostate biopsy this year, but only about one-fifth of those biopsies will result in a cancer diagnosis.
Sep 26, 2013
0
7
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Four-year repeat of bone mineral density screening in seniors offers limited value
Repeating bone mineral density (BMD) tests after four years provides little clinical benefit when assessing bone fracture risk in seniors age 75 and older, according to a recent study led by researchers at the Harvard Medical ...
Sep 24, 2013
0
0
Oncology & Cancer
Simple, two-question survery accurately screens cancer patients for depression
Cancer patients can be accurately screened for major depression with a simple two-question survey, according to a study presented Sept. 23 at the American Society for Radiation Oncology's 55th Annual Meeting.
Sep 23, 2013
0
0
