Sentences with phrase «than a screening test»

«The Griess test, even in 1974, was regarded by most decent scientists as nothing more than a screening test.

Not exact matches

The researcher added that the Galaxy S9's screen is brighter than any other smartphone it tested and has the highest possible contrast ratio.

Apple is said to be testing screens that are larger than the standard 4 inches for iPhones and as large as 13 inches for the iPad, which currently has a 9.7 - inch screen.

In the last of those years, the reporters discovered, the federal government actually spent more on urine - based drug tests than it did on «the four most recommended cancer screenings combined.»

Joint - specific testing (much more thorough than general screen but significantly more time consuming; perform only if athlete has symptoms of current injury or history of previous injury, weakness or instability)

Many prenatal tests are for screening rather than diagnostic purposes.

More than 40 states require screening at birth for sickle cell anemia, along with other routine newborn screening tests.

Moms whose risk of having a baby with a chromosome disorder is higher than 1 in 400, whether due to age or triple / quad screen results, should have the option of having the test done.

They typically have spurts and lulls in development, which is why regular screenings are so much more helpful than a single test.

An April 2015 article published in the New England Journal of Medicine (Norton, M., et al.) showed that this test is more accurate than traditional predecessors when screening for trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome).

«Screening tests tell you the likelihood that your baby could have a birth defect, while diagnostic tests tell you with more than 99 percent certainty whether your baby has the disorder,» says Allison Hill, M.D., an OB - GYN and author of Your Pregnancy, Your Way and co-author of The Mommy Docs» Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy and Birth.

Choose an obstetrician or health care provider Interview potential doctors Contact health insurance company about coverage Start and pregnancy and birth budget Discuss financial effects of pregnancy and baby with partner Stop smoking Stop drinking Stop using street drugs Talk to your physician about any prescription medications Drink at least 8 glasses of water every day Visit the doctor at least once per month or every 4 weeks Do not dye or perm hair Stop drinking coffee and other caffeinated beverages Exercise daily Start taking prenatal vitamins Eat foods rich in folic acid Eat iron rich foods Increase daily intake of whole grains, fruits and vegetables Nap as much as possible as fatigue is common Eat fish with low levels of mercury no more than 2 days per week Do not eat undercooked meats Do not eat unpasteurized dairy producs Do not eat cold cut deli meats Allow someone else to clean out the kitty litter, if applicable Limit exposure to chemicals Try to limit stress and tension Complete all prenatal tests — HIV, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Anemia, Blood Typing, Sickle Cell Anemia, Urine Screening and Rubella.

This is a screening test rather than definite proof of diagnosis.

There is no need to screen more frequently than every three years, since the cumulative occurrence of a cervical cancer precursor lesion called a CIN3 + during the three years after a negative HPV test was less than 1 percent.

But the test's use in screening has been debated for more than a decade.

According to researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) while the merits of screening tests and screening intervals warrant further discussion, they firmly believe that increasing the number of women who participate in cancer screenings and ensuring that women are not lost to follow - up with lengthened screening intervals is more important than the choice of test to decrease rates of cervical cancer.

Instead of systematically testing the effects of known compounds — the pharmaceutical industry's basic model for more than a century — scientists can now investigate backward, combing through genomic data to find links between specific genotypes and diseases and then screening drug data to identify therapeutic candidates.

«It took us more than two years to screen, test and engineer about five dozen enzyme candidates and variants to identify the final set of 17 that we used to construct our cycle.»

In addition to potentially improving screening tests, the team believes their approach may someday help doctors control CTC - induced metastasis, which the researchers say can be far more lethal than the original tumor.

Conventional genetic screening looks for specific mutated sequences of DNA, but the Dutch test simply searches for proteins which are shorter than those produced by healthy genes.

Interestingly, the CDC advises routine HIV screening of adults, adolescents and pregnant women in health care settings, but does not recommend universal testing for MRSA, which kills more people than HIV.

Even though early detection of vision difficulties may lead to better quality of life, greater independence and a lower risk of falls in older adults, routine screening doesn't appear more effective than only testing patients with symptoms, the USPSTF reports in JAMA March 1.

«The ability to detect infection using urine rather than blood avoids needle stick and blood sample collection, greatly reduces the cost and necessary clinical infrastructure for screening and diagnosis, helping to promote widespread adoption of the test on a global scale,» Hu said.

«Considering that there is currently no clinical screening tool other than family history, this is a significant advance for development of molecular diagnostic tests,» she said.

«Considering that there is currently no clinical screening tool other than family history, this is a significant advance for development of molecular diagnostic tests,» Iyengar said.

After an Early Test program was implemented in San Diego, there were fewer new HIV diagnoses than would have been expected without this testing approach, suggesting that such screening can reduce transmission in targeted, high - risk communities.

Rather than screening an athlete's blood or urine samples for traces of banned substances right before or after a competition, testers using the ABP scheme compare samples with an athlete's baseline profile, as determined by multiple tests over time.

Those on diets, for example, often prefer not to look at the number of calories in a tasty dessert, people at high risk for a disease avoid screening tests that could give them a definite answer, and most consumers of news choose sources that align with rather than challenge their political ideology.

The team reports that the test must be further refined before it will be applied to the general population, because screening strategies for early detection should have specificities greater than 99.6 percent in order to avoid false positive diagnoses.

Now, a team at MIT and other institutions has come up with a way to bypass such expensive and time - consuming fabrication and testing, allowing for a rapid screening of far more variations than would be practical through the traditional approach.

In addition, the researchers found, men who have low incomes, did not finish high school, lack insurance, or are Hispanic were significantly less likely than men overall to report hearing about the pros and cons of screening via the PSA test, the study found.

Fewer people than expected are demanding screening for cystic fibrosis, according to the first studies in the US into how testing for the genetic disease should be carried out.

The researchers suggest, based on their analysis of the data, that screening compliance could be increased by focusing educational and outreach efforts on certain groups who were less likely to get their infants screened for congenital CMV: less educated mothers, babies not born in a hospital and infants who received hearing tests later than 14 days after birth.

A new blood test seems to be more than twice as good at detecting bowel cancer than the method currently used to screen for polyps and early bowel cancer

To test DDX3's druggability, the team chose to design its own small molecule rather than screen libraries of molecules already created.

A BLOOD test that can spot early - stage bowel cancer may be a more accurate way to screen for the disease than current methods.

Despite the complexity of the science behind the test, Ory speculated it would be no more expensive to run this new test than other standard newborn screening tests.

«Our method would be an effective low - cost addition to a battery of tests helping to lower the false positive rate since it provides 10 % better sensitivity and specificity than any other screening method, including Pap and HPV tests,» says Huang.

Now, as a result of 10 years work, Huang and her team have created a cervical cancer screening technique that, based on an analysis of a very large dataset, has the potential to perform as well or better than human interpretation on other traditional screening results, such as Pap tests and HPV tests — at a much lower cost.

Widespread use of non-invasive prenatal screening has led to a decline in invasive testing, and since samples are more likely to be evaluated locally, rather than a central service, there is a wider range of options for cfDNA testing compared to other parts of the world.

Martinez - Trujillo, a member of Western's renowned Brain and Mind Institute, notes that most spatial memory experiments include animal models being tested in actual, real - world mazes while humans are assessed virtually, using computer screens, more often than not in a two - dimensional setting.

I am excited to be able to extend my screening and prevention practice, because this test applies to so many more women than the BRCA1 and BRCA2 tests.

The NPR story reported that another recent study found that the false - positive rate for lung CT (computerized tomography) is 33 percent among those who have had two screening tests — higher than the National Cancer Institute trial found.

However, with few exceptions, the stem cell and regenerative medicine industry has remained inadequately capitalized to carry out large - scale clinical trials independently, and major pharmaceutical firms have tended to show more interest in the use of hiPSCs as a source of large, pure populations of specific somatic cells for use in drug compound screening and toxicology tests, than they have in therapeutic uses of stem cells and their derivatives.

Improved donor screening and blood testing procedures have made the nation's blood supply safer than it has ever been.

Still, Nimgaonkar stressed that the blood test is envisioned as another tool in the screening arsenal rather than a replacement for colonoscopies.

«This test could be an option for such individuals, boosting compliance» because it has a «higher sensitivity» than the stool - based screening options now available, he said.

At age 30, if a woman has no history of cervical cancer and has had three normal Pap tests in a row, she can be screened every three years, rather than every two to three years.

If you have a second - degree relative with celiac, your risk is about 4 or 5 % higher than someone with no family members with celiac, says Dr. Leffler, so you should get screened once a family member tests positive for the disease.

In my view, knowing your antibody numbers early on is a better screening test than knowing your TSH level.