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screening tests based on a computer model including 110,948 pregnancies.
And, how do I reconcile my own choosy approach to
screening tests with my political advocacy for health care for all?
If you receive a normal report but a life-threatening disease is really present, then you will have received false reassurance that could interfere with your recognizing symptoms or getting appropriate
screening tests later.
Also called the maternal serum
screening test, the triple marker looks for the presence of three chemicals, the levels of which may indicate the possibility of a chromosome or neural tube defect.
Research is being done to find the most reliable
screening test for prostate cancer.
If you can do that, it's going to have a much bigger impact than getting a chest x-ray or some new fancy
screening test.
The team compared the results of those initial
screening tests with findings obtained by nerve conduction testing, which accurately identifies more than 90 percent of carpal tunnel syndrome cases.
Nigeria is initially implementing a "parallel testing algorithm" that uses two
screening tests from different manufacturers on each patient tested.
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But the development of
screening tests for the inherited bad genes that can trigger breast cancer has increased demand for this approach.
The reason, explains toxicologist Janardan Reddy at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, is that the short-term
screening tests look for chemicals that cause genetic mutations in bacteria.
Nigeria is initially implementing a "parallel testing algorithm", and as such uses two
screening tests from different manufacturers on each patient tested.
