Test confusion 'risk to patients'
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Many junior doctors do not understand many common hospital laboratory tests, and are putting patients at risk as a result, claim biochemists.
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A review of 20 years&#39; worth of tissue samples casts doubt on the value of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing for prostate cancer, a new study contends.
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Reaction has been mixed to the findings of the New Zealand Cervical Cancer Screening Audit, released today. The College of GPs expressed concern, but little surprise at the findings, while the New Zealand
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A common screening test failed to detect potentially cancerous colon growths 95 percent of the time, falsely reassuring patients and doctors, according to a new study.
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HUNDREDS of patients are being warned they could have contracted hepatitis or HIV after undergoing a hospital procedure. The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust said there was a &quot;very low&quot; risk of
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Doctors are warned that ambiguous abbreviations in medical notes are putting patients' lives at risk.
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BEIJING, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- A new study shows that stress tests may miss over half the cases of early heart disease.
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The employment of Indian secretaries on the sub-continent to type up British patients&#39;medical notes is causing confusion and concern, according to leading health experts.
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Cancer patients are being put at risk because of the refusal of drug companies to publish the results of clinical trials, scientists claimed yesterday.
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Many of us are bewildered by common documents -- with dangerous results.
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Thousands of men may have unnecessarily undergone an invasive operation to remove their prostate, sometimes suffering impotence and incontinence as a result, because of a screening test which was yesterday written off as all but useless.
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That&#39;s because tests to determine whether they contracted a potentially fatal, paralyzing illness from being injected with an anti-wrinkle treatment or got the toxin some other way were inconclusive.
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The case of a medical student requesting extra breaks on lengthy tests so she can pump breast milk is a harbinger of what could become a growing problem.
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NEW YORK  - In a study conducted at two major HIV centers in Singapore, rapid HIV self-tests were used improperly, or the results were interpreted incorrectly, by individuals at risk for HIV infection or those who were already infected.
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For doctors, searching out disease before it appears can also carry risks.
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A Greater Manchester doctor is to blame for misreading the breast cancer scan results of 28 women, a report says.
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Eighteen British troops are being tested amid fears they were given blood which was not properly checked.