Why Increased Testing Is Critical For The Bird Flu
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JULY 7, 2024
The FDA recently announced efforts to increase testing of more dairy products in an attempt to curb the spread of the virus across dairy farms.
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This Biotech Startup Aims To Speed Up Drug Testing On Animals
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APRIL 26, 2024
Gordian Biotechnology’s platform allows for potentially hundreds of gene therapies to be tested in an animal at the same time — without harming it.
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What To Do If You Test Positive For COVID-19
Forbes Healthcare
JANUARY 3, 2025
Here's what to do if you test positive for COVID-19 During the current "silent" COVID-19 surge, you are at greater risk for getting infected with the SARS-CoV-2.
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Procter & Gamble’s Menopause Test Kit Is A ‘Fraud,’ Lawsuit Claims
Forbes Healthcare
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
A urine stick test isnt the best way to determine a womans menopausal status.
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Why Self-Collected Tests Will Change Everything For Cervical Cancer Screening
Forbes Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 1, 2024
In the fall, women will be able to use an easy, self-administered test to screen for cervical cancer. With self-collection, a woman can swab her vagina in private.
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Understanding Perfectionism And Test Anxiety Among College Students
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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Blood Test Could Detect Cancer Up To Seven Years Earlier
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 17, 2024
A blood test to analyse proteins could detect cancer up to seven years before it is currently diagnosed according to new research.
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New Blood Test Could Detect Pancreatic Cancer Earlier
Forbes Healthcare
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
A new blood-based test could diagnose pancreatic cancer much earlier, improving outcomes for people with the disease.
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Beware The Hype About That Alzheimer’s Blood Test
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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No More Invasive Tests: Hera Biotech’s Endometriosis Solution
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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When Trials Find Implausible Results—The SCOT-HEART trial
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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Walgreens Wants Pharmacists Provider Role Expanded To ‘Test And Treat’
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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Experts Call For More Regulation Of At Home Microbiome Test Kits
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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New Diagnostic Blood Test For Alzheimer’s Disease Targets Tau
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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A Third Of Younger Women In England Aren’t Getting Key Cancer Test
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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U.K. Tests World-First Personalized Skin Cancer Vaccine
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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Nurse with Medical Marijuana Card Fired After Failing Drug Test
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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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Nursing Quiz to Test Your Medical Skills
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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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The Prototype: SpaceX Starship Test Ends In An Explosion. Again.
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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This Startup Raised $5.2 Million To Develop Blood Tests For Cancer
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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Genetic Testing Company 23andMe Files for Bankruptcy
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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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Fall Asleep And Sleep Better: 3 Tested Strategies
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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Bird Flu (H5N1) Explained: USDA Will Test Ground Beef Samples From Grocery Stores
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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Sepsis Causes Over 350,000 Deaths Annually. This Lab Test Can Reduce That By A Third.
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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Is Raw Milk Safe? Officials Ramp Up Testing Amid Bird Flu Outbreak
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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Why Don’t U.S. Guidelines Recommend DPYD Testing Before Chemotherapy? Cancer Patients Are Dying To Know.
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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‘Free’ COVID-19 Tests: A Harbinger Of Government-Centered Healthcare
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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U.K. Startup Launches HPV Testing Tampons To Fight Cervical Cancer
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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Ebola Outbreak In Uganda: A Real Test Of Pandemic Readiness
Forbes Healthcare
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
Officials are responding rapidly and the WHO has launched a new vaccine trial
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Race in Medicine
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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Why most medical research is likely (still) waste, and less research funding may be one way forward
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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Coronary Artery Calcium Trial Fails to Impress
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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Important Program For Covid Patients Closes, Leaving Many Stranded
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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I Am Afraid of Early Cancer Detection
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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The Prototype: $5 Million XPrize Awarded For Using Drones To Monitor Rainforests
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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Could Avian Influenza Be The Next Covid-19?
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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Most Baby Foods Sold In US Don’t Meet International Nutritional Standards And Contain ‘Misleading’ Messaging, Study Suggests
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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Is A Covid-19 Outbreak Happening At The Paris Olympics?
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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Treatable Causes Of Dementia May Be More Common Than Realized
Forbes Healthcare
JULY 31, 2024
A common treatable cause of dementia can be detected with simple blood tests.
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This AI Model Could Keep Thousands Of Cancer Patients From Getting Unnecessary Treatments
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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Less Than 1 In 5 Americans Who Are Eligible Are Getting Screen For Lung Cancer. Here’s Why
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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Hackers Publish 400GB Of Data After London Hospital Cyber Attack
Forbes Healthcare
JUNE 21, 2024
The data contains patient information including names, identification numbers and details of blood tests. It's not yet clear if it contains test results.
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What To Know About Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccines After Promising Trials From Moderna And Merck
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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Summer Temperatures Are Rising — And So Are Covid-19 Cases
Forbes Healthcare
JUNE 26, 2024
A trio of variants is fueling a surge in Covid-19 cases, with the CDC reporting an increase in test positivity, emergency department visits, hospitalizations and death.
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