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Do New Blood Tests for Cancer Meet the Right Standards?

Biotech startups worldwide are rushing to market screening tests that they claim can detect various cancers in early stages with just a few drops...

Awareness Efforts Needed to Address Genetic Testing Disparities Among Male BRCA1/2 Carriers

Rates of genetic testing are significantly lower for males harboring germline pathogenic variants (PVs) in BRCA1/2 than females despite increasing evidence showing that men...

Breast Cancer in Older Women (70 and Up)

While breast cancer becomes more common with age, the good news is it’s often less aggressive and may need less-intense treatments. Here’s why. Source link...

Alternative lung cancer screening criteria may increase sensitivity versus current guidelines

1. In this modeling study, an alternative set of lung cancer screening criteria was more sensitive and specific overall in identifying high-benefit people...

Doxy PEP for Bacterial STI Prevention | STI

Overview CDC encourages providers to use Clinical Guidelines on the Use of Doxycycline Post-exposure Prophylaxis for Bacterial STI Prevention to inform doxy PEP practices. These...

Using Telemedicine to Expand Diabetic Retinopathy Screening

Although guidelines advise annual screenings, nearly half of patients with diabetes skip essential eye exams, driving increased use of teleretinal programs to detect unnoticed...

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