Meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies is an increasingly pivotal approach in evidence-based medicine, enabling the synthesis of data from multiple investigations to assess the performance ...

About three years ago Anila D’Mello, then a postdoctoral fellow in neuroscientist John Gabrieli’s laboratory at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ...

Korea's first fully automated diagnostic system capable of simultaneously detecting 16 major foodborne pathogens within one ...

Nobody enjoys twirling a swab up their nose to test for COVID-19, but many people had cause to be grateful for at-home diagnostic tests during the height of the pandemic. Users could learn in 15 ...

Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) is the most common fungal pneumonia in children. But current diagnostic methods can take days an require an invasive bronchoscopy procedure. Now, a new ...

A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test detects genetic material from a pathogen or abnormal cell sample. Ways of collecting samples include a nasal swab, a saliva swab, or taking a sample of blood.

Allowing nontraditional laboratories to perform diagnostic testing in a potential pandemic situation was one of the nearly 100 actions proposed by a panel of experts, according to results of a new ...

The Rorschach test is a psychological test designed by psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach in the early 1900s. The test involves presenting a subject with images of inkblots; the person then describes what ...

Around four years ago, now 77-year-old John Gormly went for what was supposed to be a routine blood test. But the results were life-changing. The test suggested Gormly had colon cancer, which a ...