You've experienced symptoms of a medical problem, visited one or more healthcare providers, and have undergone medical tests. Now, your healthcare provider will use all that evidence to arrive at your ...

Currently, there are more non-smokers (never smokers and past smokers) who develop lung cancer than current smokers. Available laboratory tests may help diagnose lung cancer, though this is more ...

However, a negative RIDT result is unreliable and should be confirmed by traditional diagnostic tests if the result is likely to affect patient management. In our meta-analysis, the sensitivity of ...

Learning about your genetics and ancestry is easier than ever. All you need to do is choose from the many DNA ancestry tests available online, receive your kit and send back the required DNA samples.

Gout can occur in the hip joint rarely. In gout, uric acid crystals build up in the joints. There can be sudden, severe pain ...

If you or a loved one have cancer that was undiagnosed or the diagnosis was delayed, note if your physician failed to: Discuss and order routine cancer screening tests Correctly interpret the ...

A study in Nature Medicine developed a new clinical test based on a gut metagenome-derived multispecies biomarker panel for the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease, which outperformed faecal ...

Tests can determine which gene is at fauly (see Diagnosis). There are also cases of eFAD that cannot be linked to one ... This kind of AD inheritance is like that of quintessential genetic diseases, ...

SAN DIEGO — Lauren E. Merz, MD, MSc, can still feel both the relief and anger two parents expressed during her first year of medical school at University of Michigan.

Travis Brewer, vice president of payer and public health strategy/relations at Texas Oncology, shared that value-based oncology care can achieve both cost efficiency and high-quality outcomes ...