NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared with standard blood gas analysis, the Masimo Radical 7 multiwave pulse oximeter measures carboxyhemoglobin noninvasively with acceptable accuracy and can be used…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with advanced, untreated non-small-cell lung cancer, the American Society of Clinical Oncology recommends that the tumor be tested for genetic mutations…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Removing more lymph nodes from patients with lymph node positive renal cell carcinoma meant fewer died of the disease, according to a new…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Use of a point-of-care troponin T assay by paramedics before patients with suspected acute MI reach the hospital is feasible and has a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Screening pregnant women for chlamydia using urine samples is just as accurate as when cervical secretions are used, suggests a new study published…
NEW YORK (Reuter Health) – With the availability of more sensitive troponin I assays, lowering the diagnostic threshold for detection of myocardial necrosis from 0.20 to 0.05 ng/mL…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -– A point-of-care test for beta-hydroxybutyrate in capillary blood is more specific than a urine dipstick for ketones in identifying diabetic ketoacidosis in emergency-department…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A D-dimer level below 500 ng/mL reliably rules out acute aortic dissection, although the positive predictive value of a higher concentration is quite…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women with latent celiac disease — positive celiac antibodies but a normal small bowel biopsy — may be at increased risk of reproductive…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Having an on-site pathologist interpret tissue samples at endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) can lead to immediate diagnosis, researchers report in the November 23rd…