Which is more important when working with healthcare AI detection: that it never misses something on a patient scan, or that it never identifies something that isn’t there? In other words, which ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The IC-OS definition of immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated myocarditis demonstrated good diagnostic ...

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 ...

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 ...

A novel PET perfusion radiotracer, 18 F-flurpiridaz, can diagnose coronary artery disease (CAD) in obese patients with a higher sensitivity and specificity compared to 99m Tc-SPECT myocardial ...

Princeton University and collaborators have developed SHINE-TB, a one-sample, parallelized reaction amplification and detection CRISPR assay that detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from ...

In a prospective, multicenter, adjudicator blinded clinical trial, Carl A. Deirmengian, MD, FAAOS, and colleagues conducted an alpha-defensin lateral-flow test for periprosthetic joint infection among ...

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 ...

The Theraflu Home FluTest, a novel rapid influenza diagnostic test, demonstrated good sensitivity and specificity for both influenza A and B viruses. This article is part of Pulmonology Advisor’s ...

Many developing countries lack sufficient resources to conduct animal disease surveillance. In recent years, participatory epidemiology has been used to increase the cover and decrease the costs of ...