Next-generation Cologuard exhibited improved colorectal cancer specificity and sensitivity compared with results of the FDA registrational trial that led to approval of the noninvasive screening test, ...

Dear Dr. Roach: How reliable are home COVID-19 tests? I’ve read one article that said that if you tested negative you could be certain that you did not have COVID-19, but if you tested positive there ...

Medical tests, like the blood tests that look for antibodies to the novel coronavirus, aren't perfect. Sometimes, you end up with a false negative: You actually did have the coronavirus and your ...

Researchers said the blood test offers an earlier warning of hepatocellular carcinoma than current methods. Recent research highlights the increased sensitivity and specificity of a blood test to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A system for mechanical thrombectomy treating ischemic stroke demonstrated a high level of sensitivity and ...

A novel PET perfusion radiotracer, 18 F-flurpiridaz, can diagnose coronary artery disease (CAD) in obese patients with a higher sensitivity and specificity compared to 99m Tc-SPECT myocardial ...

Princeton University and collaborators have developed SHINE-TB, a one-sample, parallelized reaction amplification and detection CRISPR assay that detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from ...

A new tau PET radiotracer, 18F-SNFT-1, has been found to be more effective than existing tau PET radiotracers in identifying Alzheimer’s disease in its earliest stages, according to research. In a ...

A 90-minute COVID-19 test has been shown to have over 94 per cent sensitivity, and 100 per cent specificity in a new study. The work, published in the journal The Lancet Microbe, was ledby scientists ...

Use of Thermal Ablation in Low-Resource Settings: Experience From Three Multicenter Noninferiority Randomized Clinical Trials Women living with and without HIV, age 30-65 years, were recruited in ...

The U.S. FDA continues to modify its emergency use authorization (EUA) policy for testing for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, although workplace testing is still on the agency’s to-do list. The FDA’s Tim ...