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Sensitivity and specificity of 61 commercial disease detection products: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 80 cohorts with approximately 445,000 enrolled samples.

Effects of common nutraceutical supplements marketed for cancer prevention on tumor cell growth.
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Improving the Sensitivity-Specificity Balance of Human Papillomavirus Testing on Self- and Clinician-Collected Samples in South Africa

Women living with and without HIV, age 30-65 years, were recruited in South Africa. Self-collected vaginal samples and clinician-collected cervical samples were tested with Xpert HPV, an assay that ...
BMJ

2.21 The test-retest reliability, sensitivity and specificity of the SCAT-3 for sideline testing

Conclusions Symptoms, the SAC and the m-BESS have poor test-retest reliability. Symptoms have reasonable sensitivity and specificity for concussion but are subjective. The 3-word SAC and m-BESS are ...
STAT

What diagnostic tests can teach about spotting public fraud

Kennedy-Shaffer is a biostatistics educator and researcher at the Yale School of Public Health. There’s a thought exercise I like to do with my statistics students. Imagine a doctor who throws away ...
The Scientist

Insights into qPCR: Protocol, Detection Methods, and Analysis

Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is a molecular technique that has reshaped the landscape of biological research and medicine due to its high sensitivity and specificity. qPCR, also known ...

Boehringer Ingelheim and Eko Health Inc. launch new AI-based solution that detects heart murmurs in dogs

CANINEBEAT® AI helps veterinarians detect, visualize, and grade heart murmurs in dogs that can otherwise go undetectedThe CANINEBEAT® AI algorithm detects heart murmurs associated with structural ...