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Category: Diagnostic tests

7/11/2018

Screening for atrial fibrillation with a wearable patch: Seek and ye shall find … and then what?

6/21/2018

Understanding medical tests: A new addition to our toolkit addressing sensitivity, specificity, and other core concepts

3/23/2018

‘$7.9 trillion’ savings from earlier Alzheimer’s diagnosis: Is there a hidden agenda behind the numbers?

1 3/14/2018

Wearable technology to screen for atrial fibrillation: Does it raise more questions than it answers?

1/31/2018

NY Times hails discovery of new genetic heart disease risk factor, but what about researchers’ industry ties?

1 12/20/2017

New blood pressure guidelines: supporters get coverage, critics don’t. Why?

11/24/2017

Is Alzheimer’s ‘coming for you’? NY Times uses anecdote and an old blood test to warn it might be

2 11/3/2017

Scanning for suicide with fMRI: the limitations of pixels and language

1 10/11/2017

More evidence that women should be wary of ‘ovarian reserve testing’ events

9 9/12/2017

Most news coverage on new PSA testing study acknowledged costly trade-offs

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