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 ...

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, ...

A model that calculates the probability of cancer may help to rule out a lung cancer diagnosis following screening preventions – which would substantially reduce false positives. A model that ...

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 ...

For most people, having an at-home COVID test or two handy is just a normal part of life these days. But, if you happen to take a test and get a positive you weren’t expecting, it’s more than ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clinicians should continue to counsel patients that false-positive results are an expected outcome of screening mammography. Age and breast density should be factored in when deciding the frequency of ...

A study led by UC Davis Health has found that half of all women will experience at least one false positive mammogram over a decade of annual breast cancer screening with digital breast tomosynthesis ...

Remember that statistical power is the probability of finding significance [as defined by convention] with a given probability [conventionally .8] if the original finding is real, that is, if it is a ...