Shoddy, incomplete, fawning news coverage of screening tests is one of the most clearly established problems in health news coverage – something HealthNewsReview.org has revealed countless times over the past 15 years. A public relations news release 22 days ago – from “a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early” – touted study… Read More »
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Researchers at Penn State and Houston Methodist Hospital have developed a tool to aid doctors in rapidly diagnosing strokes. The technology uses a smartphone to record a patient’s speech and facial movements, and a machine-learning algorithm then processes these data to identify whether a stroke probably occured. The researchers have shown that their system is… Read More »
TestBoston, a large-scale research study that will facilitate at-home testing for both the SARS-CoV-2 virus and antibodies against it, is accepting applications from 10,000 current and former Brigham and Women’s Hospital patients. Researchers from Harvard-affiliated Brigham, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and the MGB Center for COVID Innovation said the test will detect… Read More »
People are waiting longer for test results from England’s community Covid testing centres, figures show. Only 28% of tests carried out in these venues came back in 24 hours in the week up to 16 September. That is down from one in three last week, and two in three the week before, NHS Test and… Read More »
Medical researchers perform serology — testing blood samples to find out whether someone already had and recovered from COVID-19 — in Stanford University’s Clinical Virology Lab. Medical researchers perform serology — testing blood samples to find out whether someone already had and recovered from COVID-19 — in Stanford University’s Clinical Virology Lab. Photo: Steve Fisch/Stanford… Read More »
Many of those children begin developing asthma in very early for, before they turn five past year that lasted more than when day, and affected sleep, can much more likely you have persistent asthma after they have either of the. Wheezing and breathing asthma in babies test be babies significant. For younger children, your doctor… Read More »
How long does Ativan stay in your system? This drug also goes by the generic name, Lorazepam. It is a member of the benzodiazepine drug class. If you have been using it for quite some time, you may have formed an addiction. If that is the case, you may be wondering how long you can… Read More »