NewYork-Presbyterian's program offers self-referred genetic testing, focusing on personalized cancer prevention and care.

New research among lung cancer screening participants has found that low-dose chest computed tomography (CT) screening is ...

For stable, symptomatic patients with suspected CAD who are deemed to be at “minimal risk” using a CT-based tool, deferral of diagnostic testing is just as safe as the usual approach and is even ...

Mohana Ravindranath is a freelance health, science, and tech journalist and a 2025 Association for Health Care Journalists fellow. She was previously a Bay Area health tech correspondent for STAT.

This study evaluated patient experiences with genetic testing for inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) and the association between underlying knowledge, testing outcomes, and the perceived value of the ...

Some of the most challenging leakage-current-testing requirements are those for patient-monitoring devices—both invasive and noninvasive. Such testing can be time-consuming and expensive, so it is ...

Mrs C ­underwent a biopsy, which showed invasive adenocarcinoma, and a PET scan confirmed that it was stage IV disease. Mrs C’s prognosis was extremely poor due to the late stage at which the cancer ...

Routine laboratory tests are regularly performed in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (HD) to detect anemia, chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disorders, and cardiovascular disease. More ...

For decades, the medical standard of care included race-based medical tests — or giving different scores to Black and white patients with identical test results — to determine how sick a patient might ...