Medscape

New Blood Test Shows Promise in Pancreatic Cancer Detection

A blood-based test with five biomarkers shows high accuracy in distinguishing patients with early-stage pancreatic cancer ...
Forbes

What Does It Mean To Say A Medical Test Is ‘Sensitive’ Or ‘Specific’?

Q: What do American radar operators in World War II have in common with modern day patients trying to decide if a whole body MRI scan is worth the money? A: Both have to be concerned if a blurry dot ...
News Medical

Study assesses the sensitivity, specificity of rapid antigen tests and PCR tests for Omicron variant of COVID-19

A study led by Osaka University recently found that the sensitivity of rapid antigen tests (RATs) for the Omicron variant of COVID-19 when compared with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests was 0.63 ...

New Study Demonstrates Accuracy of Two Quest AD-Detect® Tests for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis

The Quest AD-Detect® blood-based test panels deliver confirmatory accuracy, potentially supporting reduced reliance on ...
MedPage Today

Blood-Based Test for CRC Screening Hits Sensitivity, Specificity Endpoints

WASHINGTON -- A blood-based test for the early detection of colorectal cancer (CRC) met its prespecified sensitivity and specificity endpoints, according to results from the PREEMPT CRC study. Using ...
Healio

Next-generation Cologuard demonstrates improved colorectal cancer sensitivity, specificity

Next-generation Cologuard exhibited improved colorectal cancer specificity and sensitivity compared with results of the FDA registrational trial that led to approval of the noninvasive screening test, ...
Healio

High sensitivity observed for most molecular tests assessing malignancy of thyroid nodules

Studies analyzing four molecular tests commonly used to assess malignancy in thyroid nodules have high sensitivity despite several limitations, according to findings from a systematic review and ...
News Medical

Novel PET radiotracer shows high sensitivity, specificity in diagnosing coronary artery disease in obese patients

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 ...
BMJ

2.19 The test-retest reliability, sensitivity and specificity of the King-Devick test for sideline testing

Conclusions The K-D has fair test-retest reliability. The combination of sensitivity and specificity with any increase in time is better than other currently used objective measures of concussion.
Nasdaq

Next-generation Cologuard Test Demonstrates 94 Percent Sensitivity for Colorectal Cancer at 91 Percent Specificity, Raising the Bar in Non-invasive Screening

Note: specificity including non-advanced findings includes colonoscopy results that were negative for cancer or advanced precancer upon histopathological review; specificity including no findings ...
STAT

What diagnostic tests can teach about spotting public fraud

Kennedy-Shaffer is a biostatistics educator and researcher at the Yale School of Public Health. There’s a thought exercise I like to do with my statistics students. Imagine a doctor who throws away ...