An accompanying editorial says this study largely confirms what is already known - that the benefits of breast screening "are modest at best" – and calls for women to be given balanced information ...

A major update to federal women’s health preventive guidance will make it easier for women to get screened for cervical ...

A new study led by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, in collaboration with the University of North ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The number needed to screen to detect at least one advanced adenoma was higher among those with no detectable ...

The benefit of population-based PSA screening for men with an average risk of prostate cancer does not outweigh the harm caused. This is the conclusion drawn by the Institute for Quality and ...

Black Men with Low-Risk Prostate Cancer Produce Less PSA In all studied scenarios, PSA screening appeared more favorable for Black men than for the general population. The benefits of PSA screening ...

A breast cancer awareness campaign by the research advocacy group Susan G. Komen for the Cure overstated the benefit that mammograms have on survival rates of women with breast cancer, researchers say ...

In the randomised controlled trial reported by Carlson et al (2012), screening cancer patients for distress was followed by one of the two different triages: computerised vs personalised. The authors ...

Personalized Medicine. 2014;11(6):593-607. A further implication of citing reproductive choice as a primary benefit of newborn screening is that it lessens the urgency of screening. If informing ...

The benefits of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test to screen men for prostate cancer may be greater than the harm, according to a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Nurse education is the key to successfully screening women for postpartum depression, which affects some 15% of mothers, according to a new quality improvement (QI) study from Cedars-Sinai. Training ...