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Screening for aortic aneurysms in older men questioned

18.06.2018 Health Problems

Screening programs for aortic aneurysms in the abdomen is now being questioned in a study published in The Lancet. As the condition becomes less common, general ultrasound scans for 65-year-old men may do more harm than good, the researchers assert. “You run the risk of both over-diagnosing and over-treating a disease that does not at all represent the same problem […]

Screening blood donations for Zika virus is costly, low yield

11.05.2018 Health Problems

(HealthDay)—Screening blood donations for Zika virus (ZIKV) in the United States is costly with low yield, according to a study published in the May 10 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Paula Saá, Ph.D. from the American Red Cross in Gaithersburg, Md., and colleagues implemented investigational screening of donated blood for ZIKV RNA with transcription-mediated amplification (TMA). Repeat […]