Forbes Healthcare

AUGUST 5, 2024

New biomarker blood tests are an important advancement for researchers. But the benefits for real-world patients are more modest than all the breathless hype suggests.

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Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 17, 2025

After Spring Break, many students will seek counseling due to concerns about their academic performance and often report experiencing high perfectionism and test anxiety.

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Forbes Healthcare

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Hera Biotech is developing a less invasive, more accurate diagnostic test for endometriosis, an often painful condition that can lead to infertility.

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

An imaging test. One group of patients with chest pain received standard stress testing; the other received standard stress testing plus a coronary CT scan (CCTA). Here is the 5-year survival curves for the composite endpoint of CV death and MI: How can a diagnostic test lead to this much benefit? Not a drug.

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Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 7, 2025

Plus: Ancient tool use, reducing AIs big power draw, Firefly lands on the Moon and more.

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Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 15, 2024

Experts say there is no way of defining a healthy microbiome and that some currently available tests may risk misleading consumers.

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Forbes Healthcare

APRIL 2, 2024

Walgreens is working with state regulators to expand the role of the pharmacist to provide more healthcare services to "test and treat."

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 23, 2024

But the lifesaving tests are a key tool in the fight against cervical cancer. Cervical screenings can be uncomfortable, embarrassing and even painful.

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Forbes Healthcare

OCTOBER 25, 2024

A newly published study from Sweden unveiled a blood test capable of detecting Alzheimer’s disease with 90% accuracy.

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Scrubs

APRIL 7, 2023

A nurse at the Cass County Jail in Fargo, North Dakota recently lost her job after failing a mandatory drug test even though she has a valid medical marijuana card. Members of the commission said Rodacker-Bartch was fired because of the positive drug test, a clear violation of staff policy.

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Forbes Healthcare

APRIL 26, 2024

Customized with genetic information from a patient’s own tumor, vaccines like this could one day be used against lung, kidney, bladder and colon cancer.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 23, 2023

If you are a practicing nurse, use this nursing quiz to test your knowledge of basic medicine. /34 avg 481 Created on August 16, 2022 Nursing Quiz to Test Your Medical Skills 1 / 34 A nurse is caring for a patient with MRSA, so wearing a gown and gloves. 34 12 votes, 1.9

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Forbes Healthcare

JULY 16, 2024

Predicta Biosciences is using precision medicine to diagnose and monitor multiple myeloma–and give doctors insights for better treatment plans.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 24, 2025

The direct-to-consumer genetic testing company 23andMe has announced it has entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy and has asked the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri to facilitate a sale to maximize the value of its business. 23andMe provides saliva-based DNA test kits to help customers identify and track their ancestry.

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Forbes Healthcare

APRIL 29, 2024

Bird flu typically spreads among birds, but there have been recent outbreaks among cattle in the U.S., and one Texas man contracted the virus from sick cows. Here’s why so many experts are worried about a possible new pandemic.

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Forbes Healthcare

AUGUST 4, 2024

Recent data shows that about one in three adults don’t get enough sleep. Here are three ways to fall asleep based on current trends and research.

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Forbes Healthcare

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Cytovale has developed a FDA-cleared, rapid diagnostic tool for sepsis, and it just raised $100 million to roll it out to hospital systems across the country.

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Forbes Healthcare

DECEMBER 9, 2024

There is little evidence to support the consumption of raw milk, which can harbor dangerous bacteria and viruses including bird flu.

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Forbes Healthcare

MARCH 16, 2025

If a person carries a mutation(s) in the DPYD gene, certain chemotherapies (fluorouracil (5-FU) or capecitabine (Xeloda or CAPE) may make them ill or kill them.

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Forbes Healthcare

AUGUST 26, 2024

Government-centered healthcare is fundamentally anticompetitive, anti-innovation, undemocratic, and contrary to the American self-governed way of life.

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 31, 2025

In the years that followed, I learned of efforts to remove racial identifiers from medical textbooks and test questions. Race is a therefore terrible diagnostic test. We define diagnostic tests as tools that distinguish two populations, in medicine, diseased and healthy. We do this with BRCA testing.

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Forbes Healthcare

MAY 20, 2024

Cervical cancer is a devastating disease that costs hundreds of thousands of lives around the world each year.

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Forbes Healthcare

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Officials are responding rapidly and the WHO has launched a new vaccine trial

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Second, irrelevant/indirect intervention means that studies tests interventions that are not possible to use outside the study. Third, medical interventions are often tested with indirect outcomes such as progression free survival. A systematic review estimated that clinical trials exclude about 80% of potentially eligible patients.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 10, 2025

As a skeptic of this imaging test, I saw the headline and thought: finally, we will learn whether patients who have their chest radiated have better outcomes. Same with imaging tests. Better outcomes, such as fewer heart attacks or strokes, or longer life, is why we interact with healthcare.

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Forbes Healthcare

APRIL 8, 2024

Home Test to Treat program is closing April 16. Patients have limited options for testing and getting treatment with Paxlovid.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It’s been a few years since I first heard about the Galleri test produced by the Menlo Park startup Grail. Galleri is a blood-based screening test for cancer. For a couple of reasons, I didn’t work very hard to learn about the Galleri test. Second, I was worried that this test might have real promise.

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Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Tests and nursing school go hand-in-hand. While the format for some of these exams is similar to tests taken in the past, such as anatomy and physiology or pharmacology, the exams dedicated to nursing content can be formatted differently, making them more challenging for many students. Tests are an unavoidable part of nursing school.

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Forbes Healthcare

MAY 5, 2024

In early April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notified the public that an individual in Texas had tested positive for highly pathogenic avian in.

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Forbes Healthcare

AUGUST 21, 2024

Although fruit pouches were the fastest-growing products—with sales jumping 900% between 2010 and 2023—the researchers found they were the most unhealthy food items tested.

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Forbes Healthcare

AUGUST 10, 2024

So far, at least 40 Olympic athletes have tested positive for the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). But is it the tip of the Covid-19 iceberg?

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Forbes Healthcare

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Startup Ataraxis, which emerged from stealth Thursday, has developed a model that can predict the risk severity of breast cancer up to 30% more accurately than current tests.

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Forbes Healthcare

JULY 31, 2024

A common treatable cause of dementia can be detected with simple blood tests.

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Forbes Healthcare

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Plus: Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck is the newest space billionaire, a test for premature birth and SpaceX tests Starship again.

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Forbes Healthcare

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Less than 20% (19.6%) of Americans who are eligible to get screened for lung cancer are getting the test they need, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

APRIL 3, 2025

Starting April 3, 2025, all test results and their results-related documents will become immediately available, without a 5-day hold, in MyAHS Connect (MAC), the online patient tool for Connect Care. Currently, patients who have access to MAC can see these test results 5 days after their ordering provider receives them.

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 4, 2024

Moderna and Merck celebrated promising data on an experimental melanoma skin cancer vaccine this week, one of several trials testing the revolutionary technology that could signal a breakthrough in cancer treatment.

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