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Influenza home diagnostic kit demonstrates good sensitivity, specificity

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A novel rapid influenza diagnostic test demonstrated beneficial sensitivity and specificity for the detection of ...
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Some back-of-the-envelope math reveals the risk in relying on even the best antibody tests to tell us who's had the coronavirus

Medical tests, like the blood tests that look for antibodies to the novel coronavirus, aren't perfect. Sometimes, you end up with a false negative: You actually did have the coronavirus and your ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Liquid Biopsy to Detect Early-Stage Liver Cancer Shows Higher Sensitivity, Specificity

Researchers said the blood test offers an earlier warning of hepatocellular carcinoma than current methods. Recent research highlights the increased sensitivity and specificity of a blood test to ...
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Sensor system showed high specificity, sensitivity for thrombectomy in ischemic stroke

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A system for mechanical thrombectomy treating ischemic stroke demonstrated a high level of sensitivity and ...
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Portable tuberculosis test achieves 100% sensitivity and specificity in clinical samples

Princeton University and collaborators have developed SHINE-TB, a one-sample, parallelized reaction amplification and detection CRISPR assay that detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from ...
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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 ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

Pediatric Asthma Risk Score Has Good Sensitivity, Specificity

(HealthDay News) — A new quantitative personalized tool can better predict asthma development in young children than the Asthma Predictive Index (API), according to a study published online Dec. 13 in ...
News Medical

Study: 90-minute COVID-19 test has high sensitivity and specificity

A 90-minute COVID-19 test has been shown to have over 94 per cent sensitivity, and 100 per cent specificity in a new study. The work, published in the journal The Lancet Microbe, was ledby scientists ...
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Sensitivity and specificity of osteopontin (OPN) versus prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in prostate carcinoma (PCa): A case- control study

Cisplatin (C) and gemcitabine (G) chemotherapy with concurrent irradiation (XRT), for the conservative treatment of invasive transitional bladder cancer (ITBC) patients: Clinical outcome and long-term ...
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Study Published in Journal of Clinical Microbiology Reports the Sensitivity and Specificity of Great Basin Corporation’s Clostridium difficile Molecular Diagnostic Test

Study Published in Journal of Clinical Microbiology Reports the Sensitivity and Specificity of Great Basin Corporation’s Molecular Diagnostic Test A study published in the August issue of showed that ...
BioWorld

FDA’s Stenzel highlights sensitivity, specificity for COVID-19 antibody testing

The U.S. FDA continues to modify its emergency use authorization (EUA) policy for testing for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, although workplace testing is still on the agency’s to-do list. The FDA’s Tim ...
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Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound Shows 100% Sensitivity and Specificity for Finding Residual or Recurrent Kidney Tumors

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) is superior to contrast magnetic resonance (MR) and computed tomography (CT), and offers 100% sensitivity and specificity, for finding ...