Genetic testing reduces risks from chemotherapy for gastrointestinal cancer patients
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For some patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancers like colorectal and pancreatic cancer, chemotherapy can cause severe, ...
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Wrexham nursing home owner tells Covid inquiry lack of testing terrified staff | Covid inquiry
A woman whose husband killed himself amid the pressure of running a care home during the pandemic has told the ...
Simpler virus testing approach could reduce unnecessary PCR tests in high-risk settings
The COVID-19 pandemic yielded important advances in testing for respiratory viruses, but it also exposed important unmet needs in screening ...
What STAT readers think about animal testing
First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech ...
Self-collection testing could be a solution to increasing access to cervical cancer screening
Mail-in self-collection tests for human papillomavirus (HPV) more than doubled cervical cancer screening participation among never- and under-screened U.S. women, ...
GAO to HHS: Fix ‘persistent deficiencies’ in infectious-disease testing before next pandemic
The latest report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) makes four recommendations and details nearly 100 ways the US Department ...
Noninvasive prenatal testing identifies twice as many Down syndrome cases as second-trimester serum screening
Credit: BGI Genomics A novel study has analyzed the cost-effectiveness of different Down syndrome (DS) screening strategies. The result confirms ...
USDA milk testing shows different strain of H5N1 bird flu in Nevada dairy herds
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday that four dairy herds in Nevada recently found to be infected with H5N1 ...
Inquest exposes poor leadership, insufficient testing at aged care home that saw 19 Covid deaths in 2020 | Australia news
Some of the 19 deaths during a 2020 Covid-19 outbreak at a NSW aged-care home could have been avoided had ...
Study suggests cognitive testing could improve Lewy body dementia diagnosis
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Cognitive profiles for early diagnosis of Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) have been outlined in a ...
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