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As DNA testing becomes cheaper, it becomes more feasible to screen large numbers of healthy people for their risk of disease.
If you’re 45 or older and have depression, new research suggests you may need to ask for a heart check when you next see your doctor.
Two major studies cast doubt on the value of screening for prostate cancer, yet it continues regardless.
Men can get breast cancer, but that doesn’t mean they would benefit from screening.
Many young people in jail suffer fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Diagnosing these before sentencing will establish the most appropriate path for these vulnerable offenders, which often isn’t jail.
By forgetting that medicine postpones death rather than saving lives, we persuade ourselves it might somehow keep extending our life and come to view death as a failure of medicine.
Screening may save lives but it comes with a cost - and sometimes unbearable decisions - that shouldn’t be underestimated.
South Africa’s cervical cancer strategy has not yielded great results. Despite this, the country has still not opted for an alternative screening methods.
A new diagnostic test for Ebola that can measure viral proteins in the blood or saliva and give results within 15 minutes is going to be tested in Guinea. The British-led project will determine the effectiveness…
The details of a surrogacy case involving an Australian couple commissioning a pregnancy in Thailand have created outrage in all sorts of quarters. But the father’s admission that he would have asked the…
Overweight children show significantly altered levels of “biomarkers” in their saliva after fasting, new research shows…
Australian women may soon have fewer of those uncomfortable visits to the doctor for cervical cancer screening. After an extensive evidence review, the Medical Services Advisory Committee has recommended…
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