When Athina was pregnant with Zoe, she had undergone amniocentesis, an invasive needle biopsy used to detect Down syndrome and other conditions. When it’s executed by doctors with lots of experience, the risk of miscarriage is low, but it exists—and that’s nerve-racking for expec...
The strange experience of watching "House" have yet another diagnostic thought dash across his brilliant mind followed immediately by his minions doing a traumatic liver biopsy followed by a cisternal puncture, though each proves his inspirations to be wrong, suggested this piece. "Medetele" came ...
He added: "If only 45% of people with a high risk of cardiovascular disease were identified and treated, 6000 strokes and heart attacks could be avoided over the next 10 years." The Royal College of GPs (RCGP) welcomed the decision to hold a review before implementing the initiative. Prof...
A biopsy confirmed metastatic TNBC. Targeted Oncology™: Would you wait for molecular testing results to come back before starting first-line therapy? O’SHAUGHNESSY:I think it’s probably better to wait, only because the issue is, if you give some chemotherapy first, are...
Still, the blunders can be devastating and are all too common. Examples go back decades: In 2006, when abiopsy sample was mislabeled, a Long Beach, New York, woman without breast cancer was misdiagnosed and got a mastectomy. In 2013, a Boston surgeonmisread a labeland injected the wrong ...
Thousands of men face a prostate biopsy following higher-than-normal results from their annual prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, the traditional screening for prostate cancer. But recent studies have shown three in four of these biopsies were unneces
there is a problem: attacking most types of dementia as strictly biological entities has largely failed to advance our ability to diagnose and treat it. In the case of Alzheimer's disease, definitive diagnosis still requires a biopsy, and new drugs to prevent, retard, or reverse it have prove...