In the U.S. there are more than 150 million emergency department (ED) visits each year, and the number is expected to rise. ED physicians face enormous pressure to quickly and correctly diagnose ...

TARRYTOWN, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new prognosis claim for the Siemens Healthineers Atellica IM High-Sensitivity Troponin I (TnIH) test 1 immediately advances care for at-risk cardiac patients in the ...

I reassured him and sent him to get another blood specimen drawn without a tourniquet. Why? Because I suspected that the ...

Providing patient-centered education and navigation support significantly increases consent rates for genomic testing, making ...

One January morning in 2021, Carol Rosen took a standard treatment for metastatic breast cancer. Three gruesome weeks later, she died in excruciating pain from the very drug meant to prolong her life.

A simple urine test can more than halve the number of cystoscopies necessary to follow up high-risk bladder cancer patients, new research has found. Cystoscopies involve inserting a flexible probe ...

In April 2021, a provision in the 21st Century Cures act took effect which required that all medical test results be released to a patient's electronic medical record as soon as they become available.

A CDC strategy for releasing COVID-19 patients from isolation that relies on symptom checking instead of testing may result in patients returning to their communities too soon, according to a letter ...

ASU and Mayo Clinic have come up with new technology that will help detect a valley fever infection, and fast. We're hearing from a patient who was diagnosed years ago, but it took a while, which ...

Patients are significantly likelier to survive a hospital stay if their hospitalist scored in the top quartile on a knowledge test linked to board certification. The odds that a patient survives a ...