A less invasive test for Alzheimer’s is a big advance. But it’s not perfect and is not meant to screen healthy people.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, words and phrases that have typically been limited to epidemiologists and public health professionals have entered the public sphere. Although we’ve rapidly accepted ...

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 ...

Dear Dr. Roach: Considering things I’ve heard on the news regarding the accuracy of the COVID-19 tests for both the virus and the antibodies, what are the chances of a false positive or false negative ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

We present astrophysical false positive probability calculations for every Kepler Object of Interest (KOI)—the first large-scale demonstration of a fully automated transiting planet validation ...

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 ...