At-home tests for detecting COVID- 19 have certainly been in the news recently. In late December, with the omicron variant of the coronavirus spreading quickly, the White House announced that the ...

ABC News' Becky Worley writes about her experience with elective medical tests. Becky Worley is a consumer and technology correspondent for "Good Morning America." When my 41-year-old best friend was ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Preventative medical tests seem like a good idea. They can show signs of a health problem before it becomes a serious issue. But a study by the Institute of Medicine says more than ...

The world’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems are essentially cheating their way through medical tests, achieving impressive scores not through genuine medical knowledge but by exploiting ...

Some of us are just curious. If you had a medical test done, and the results are sitting in your chart, don’t you want to know what they say right now? But especially if it’s bad news, it may be ...

Unnecessary medical tests are usually framed in terms of cost. But they can impair a person’s quality of life and also provide a false sense of certainty. The overuse of medical tests has become a ...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO, TX - The U.S. Army Medical Test and Evaluation Activity (USAMTEAC), formally named the U.S. Army Medical Department Board, conducted a customer test of an Ophthalmic Slit Lamp ...

Q: What do American radar operators in World War II have in common with modern day patients trying to decide if a whole body MRI scan is worth the money? A: Both have to be concerned if a blurry dot ...

An exam meant to determine whether a baby was born dead or alive is of “questionable value,” the National Association of ...

CT scans, or CAT scans, are widely used to get internal images of the body and diagnose dangerous medical conditions — but they could pose a hidden risk. A new study from the University of California ...

The modern healthcare system operates on a fundamental belief that more testing equals better care, especially for older adults. This approach, while well-intentioned, has created an unexpected crisis ...