Editor's note: When we read Sharon Long and colleagues’ retrospective on Massachusetts health reform at 10 years in the September issue of Health Affairs we were reminded just what a busy year 2006 ...

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is poised to release recommendations on screening for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection that will endorse the routine testing of adults and ...

Routine HIV testing of inmates when they enter jails would lead to many more diagnosed infections and overall would save costs on health care, a recently published study says. Researchers from the ...

Routine preoperative testing before low-risk surgery is widely viewed as having low value. A new research article indicates that routine preoperative testing before low-risk surgery is common despite ...

A team of 30 doctors helped Suze Lopez, 41, deliver her son — and remove the tumor — in a "profound" medical marvel.

Great news that vaccines are getting approved. Attention is now on who gets the medications and when. However, experts continue to say that widespread Covid-19 testing is critical to help contain the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Routine use of a molecular point-of-care test-and-treat strategy for influenza improved detection and other ...

Routine testing for latent tuberculosis infection is not required for patients receiving interleukin-17 or -23 inhibitors for psoriasis, according to an updated position statement. “When IL-17 and ...

Even in patients with multivessel or left main coronary artery disease, routine functional testing after PCI adds no benefit, according to a new subanalysis of the POST-PCI trial supporting the ...

To evaluate the effectiveness of human papillomavirus (HPV) testing in primary cervical screening. This was a cross-sectional study from the recruitment phase of a prospective randomised trial. Women ...

Among 267 participants, only five (1.9%; 95% CI, 0.8-4.3%) had glucocorticoid therapy–induced adrenal insufficiency, with four of them having an AddiQoL-30 score ≤ 85. A total of 75 patients (34%; 95% ...

The role of high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) testing in primary cervical screening has not been established. We generated a randomised evaluation design ultimately to clarify whether primary ...