Auditory screening for newborns can be successful, UT Southwestern researchers report
...iven four hours after birth, reduces the number of false positives and that providing outpatient retesting ...ening results more seriously in a program with few false positives."...Brain tumor treatment can vary greatly, according to new JAMA study
...is added that while he doesn't want to give people false hope, patients need to become empowered and seek out the best treatment available. After his surgery at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif., he was referred to UCSF Medical Center where he received radiation and then a gamma knife procedure. ...Clinical breast examination offers modest benefit to breast cancer screening program
...alse positive report), Dr. Oestreicher said. These false positive reports lead to more biopsies, she said. The study emphasizes that mammography far outperforms clinical breast examination regardless of a patient's age and breast density, said Dr. Oestreicher. Some breast cancer screening programs are con...Clot-busting drugs may help detect potentially deadly leg clots
...binson. "There is also a group of patients who are false positive. I had one in my clinic today. Those people have higher levels of d-dimer and we don't know why. It may be they have confounders, such as antibodies that mimic d-dimers," says Dr. Robinson. Adding tPA or some other clot-dissolving drug right...A new method for early detection of disease outbreaks
...s early, and--equally important--it isn't prone to false alarms. Since November 2003, the method has been integrated by the New York City Emergency Department in its syndromic surveillance system (this system for monitoring outbreaks was established in 1995 to detect outbreaks of waterborne, diarrheal...No increase in sexual risk taking among gay men in HIV-study
...id not appear to become more risky sexually out of false hope that the vaccine being tested would protect t...participate safely in HIV vaccine trials without a false sense of security that could lead to greater sexual risk-taking and new infections," said lead autho...Faster, less expensive test proven more effective in detecting bladder cancer
...e test detected cancer that truly existed, and not false positives. Although NMP22 was more sensitive in th...ent versus 86 percent), meaning that the number of false positives was higher for the NMP22 test. Still, the authors say "the high specificity of cytology is...New study tests amitriptyline for painful bladder syndrome
... by NIDDK. "And we'll never know if we are raising false hopes for patients, and unnecessarily spending health care dollars on prescriptions, if we don't do this study. It's critical to base our treatment decisions on evidence." Eligibility criteria for the amitriptyline trial mark a major departure from t...Mayo Clinic researcher calls for improved newborn screening
...ant variability in quality parameters, for example false positive rate and positive predictive value. He a...t of Health to develop a secondary analysis of the false positives that all but eliminated the problem for one particular condition, congenital adrenal hyper...Fewer false alarms when mammographers have greater experience screening healthy breasts
...e images and subject fewer women to the anxiety of false positives for cancer, when compared to physicians ...ection rate ranged from 29-97 percent. The average false positive rate was 10 percent, while the rate for individual physicians ranged from 1-29 percent. Acc...Pet scanning better for heart disease diagnosis, management
...ograms that turn out to be normal. PET avoids most false positives, as well as false negatives, because the images have higher resolution." An angiogram is a moderately invasive proced......g errors. "Our data indicate that that is often a false hope," says sociologist Ross Koppel, PhD, of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. "Good computerized physician order entry systems are, indeed, very helpful and hold great prom...Openness is key to winning the war over MMR
...lution is not to affect distain for the bearers of false news but develop two-way communication about risk between experts and the public as equals, he says. If the United Kingdom has all but lost the battle for MMR, the war itself can still be won by openness....Prostate cancer screening practices examined
.... PSA and DRE tests can be inaccurate, giving both false negatives and false positives. In addition, neither test indicates how aggressive a man's cancer is. Furthermore, becaus...Half-million cosmetic plastic surgery procedures for Hispanics in 2004 - up 49% from 2000
... patients because of language barriers building a false sense of trust with the patient simply because they too speak Spanish. Little 'clnicas' and 'boutiques' are not the best places to have cosmetic surgery." To help ensure optimal results and to limit risks and complications, the ASPS offers the fol...Brain imaging study may hold clues to onset of schizophrenia in people at high risk
...ationships, poor hygiene, emotional detachment and false beliefs. While undergoing fMRI scans, all participants responded to an executive decision test - so-called because decision making and task-appropriate response selection are required - displayed on a computer screen. This test, developed by the stud...