Medical Testing Archives

Hope, Hype or Harm? What We Know About New Cancer-Screening Tools

A doctor walks us through the risks and benefits of new cancer-detecting body scans and blood tests.

A new JAMA Internal Medicine article reviews the evidence for a widely hyped cancer-screening blood test — and finds it lacking.

A new randomized controlled trial in Nature shows the potential of artificial intelligence to help diagnose deadly heart conditions.

We talk with Bapu Jena, coauthor of a new book about how fate, mental mistakes and other unseen forces affect the care we receive.

We explore cascades of care — how a clinician’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.

Stacie Dusetzina shares new research on how much extra care comes after different kinds of breast cancer screenings.

Taking stock of the impact of the Aduhelm saga and Medicare’s decision to restrict coverage of the controversial treatment.

We explore cascades of care — how a clinician’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.

Paul Shafer on the results of a massive randomized trial of masks’ impact on the spread of COVID-19.

Doctors are pushing millions more Americans to get screened for lung cancer, but the test comes with tricky risks and tough barriers.