Breast cancer screening with digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), or "3D mammography," was associated with a lower probability of false-positive findings compared with standard digital mammography, ...

A rapid COVID-19 test swab is processed. (Photo by Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images) Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro were cleared to return to The View Monday ...

A model that calculates the probability of cancer may help to rule out a lung cancer diagnosis following screening preventions – which would substantially reduce false positives. A model that ...

Women who received false-positive mammography results were less likely to return for future screenings. Researchers analyzed more than three million screening mammograms from more than one million ...

Walk-up COVID-19 testing sites are getting a lot of foot traffic these days, but what if the test comes back positive? And what if that test got it wrong? NBC 7 Investigates learned that it happens a ...

After undergoing 10 years of annual mammography screening, more than half of women will receive at least one false-positive recall and 7% to 9% will receive a false-positive biopsy recommendation, ...

High rates of false positive test results may be keeping women from sticking to recommended mammogram screenings for breast cancer, a new study has found. Researchers from UC Davis Comprehensive ...

Clinicians should continue to counsel patients that false-positive results are an expected outcome of screening mammography. Age and breast density should be factored in when deciding the frequency of ...

For most people, having an at-home COVID test or two handy is just a normal part of life these days. But, if you happen to take a test and get a positive you weren’t expecting, it’s more than ...

Remember that statistical power is the probability of finding significance [as defined by convention] with a given probability [conventionally .8] if the original finding is real, that is, if it is a ...