Medical tests, like the blood tests that look for antibodies to the novel coronavirus, aren't perfect. Sometimes, you end up with a false negative: You actually did have the coronavirus and your ...
Chance agreement may account for a sizeable proportion of the specificity of a screening test when the disease prevalence is low. Conversely, the observed sensitivity may be largely accounted for by ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A system for mechanical thrombectomy treating ischemic stroke demonstrated a high level of sensitivity and ...
The 2016 American College of Rheumatology-European League Against Rheumatism classification criteria for the diagnosis of primary Sjögren’s syndrome has a significantly higher sensitivity, and lower ...
Princeton University and collaborators have developed SHINE-TB, a one-sample, parallelized reaction amplification and detection CRISPR assay that detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from ...
Should CA-125 Response Criteria Be Preferred to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) for Prognostication During Second-Line Chemotherapy of Ovarian Carcinoma? In CA-125–based ovarian ...
(HealthDay News) — A new quantitative personalized tool can better predict asthma development in young children than the Asthma Predictive Index (API), according to a study published online Dec. 13 in ...
Researchers said the blood test offers an earlier warning of hepatocellular carcinoma than current methods. Recent research highlights the increased sensitivity and specificity of a blood test to ...
Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, Vol. 14, No. 1 (March 2009), pp. 79-98 (20 pages) Mastitis, a worldwide endemic disease of dairy cows, is an important cause of ...