News tagged with diagnostic procedure
Good guy or bad guy? Diagnosing stomach disease in pet reptiles
Indigestion is surprisingly common in pet snakes and other reptiles. It frequently results from a parasitic infection known as cryptosporidiosis, to which reptiles seem especially prone. Cryptosporidiosis is highly contagious ...
May 31, 2011 |
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Women with false-positive mammograms report high anxiety and reduced quality of life
Doctors are calling for women to receive more information about the pitfalls of breast cancer screening, as well as the benefits, after some women who received false-positive results faced serious anxiety and reduced quality ...
Jan 13, 2011 |
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Diagnosis uncertainty increases anxiety in patients
Have you ever felt uneasy sitting in a doctor's waiting room or climbed the walls waiting for your test results? That feeling of anxious uncertainty can be more stressful than knowing you have a serious illness, according ...
Nov 29, 2010 |
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Less invasive method for determining stage of lung cancer shows benefits
A comparison of two strategies to determine the stage of suspected non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) finds that the less invasive method is more effective at identifying a type of lung cancer that has spread, and may result ...
Nov 23, 2010 |
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Targeted breast ultrasound can reduce biopsies for women under 40
Targeted breast ultrasound of suspicious areas of the breast, including lumps, is a safe, reliable and cost-effective alternative to invasive biopsies for women under age 40, according to the findings of two studies presented ...
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Researchers fine-tune diffuse optical tomography for breast cancer screening
Clemson University researchers in collaboration with researchers at the University of Bremen, Germany, are working to make the physical pain and discomfort of mammograms a thing of the past, while allowing for diagnostic ...
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Reliability and benefit of diagnostic procedure for asthma in young children is unclear
The Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) has investigated the reliability of diagnosing bronchial asthma in children aged between 2 and 5 years, and the benefit that the test results can have for these ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 20, 2009 |
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