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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
An Israeli startup developing a digital pathology system based around artificial intelligence has published what it calls “outstanding outcomes” in a clinical validation study. Tel Aviv-based Ibex ...
For decades, diagnosis of brain cancer has been medicine’s most difficult and hazardous challenge. Simple imaging such as MRI ...