A major update to federal women’s health preventive guidance will make it easier for women to get screened for cervical ...

An accompanying editorial says this study largely confirms what is already known - that the benefits of breast screening "are modest at best" – and calls for women to be given balanced information ...

A new study led by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, in collaboration with the University of North ...

A strategy involving biennial screening at age 50, followed by annual screening at age 60, would result in a 20.6% reduction in the percentage of CT screenings performed. The strategy would mostly ...

Black Men with Low-Risk Prostate Cancer Produce Less PSA In all studied scenarios, PSA screening appeared more favorable for Black men than for the general population. The benefits of PSA screening ...

The benefit of population-based PSA screening for men with an average risk of prostate cancer does not outweigh the harm caused. This is the conclusion drawn by the Institute for Quality and ...

A breast cancer awareness campaign by the research advocacy group Susan G. Komen for the Cure overstated the benefit that mammograms have on survival rates of women with breast cancer, researchers say ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The number needed to screen to detect at least one advanced adenoma was higher among those with no detectable ...

Personalized Medicine. 2014;11(6):593-607. A further implication of citing reproductive choice as a primary benefit of newborn screening is that it lessens the urgency of screening. If informing ...

Modifiable risk factors for late mortality among five-year survivors of childhood cancer: A report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. Outcomes of Hispanic and non-Hispanic white pediatric and ...

Nurse education is the key to successfully screening women for postpartum depression, which affects some 15% of mothers, according to a new quality improvement (QI) study from Cedars-Sinai. Training ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Atrial fibrillation accounts for 454,000 hospitalizations and 158,000 deaths annually, according to the CDC.