Chance agreement may account for a sizeable proportion of the specificity of a screening test when the disease prevalence is low. Conversely, the observed sensitivity may be largely accounted for by ...

Medical tests, like the blood tests that look for antibodies to the novel coronavirus, aren't perfect. Sometimes, you end up with a false negative: You actually did have the coronavirus and your ...

Should CA-125 Response Criteria Be Preferred to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) for Prognostication During Second-Line Chemotherapy of Ovarian Carcinoma? In CA-125–based ovarian ...

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, Vol. 14, No. 1 (March 2009), pp. 79-98 (20 pages) Mastitis, a worldwide endemic disease of dairy cows, is an important cause of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A system for mechanical thrombectomy treating ischemic stroke demonstrated a high level of sensitivity and ...

A 90-minute COVID-19 test has been shown to have over 94 per cent sensitivity, and 100 per cent specificity in a new study. The work, published in the journal The Lancet Microbe, was ledby scientists ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A novel rapid influenza diagnostic test demonstrated beneficial sensitivity and specificity for the detection of ...

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers report the development of a new blood test that has shown the ability in a multi-center trial to screen for numerous types of cancer with a high degree of ...