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A new study shows that almost half of people with a positive stool test dont follow-up with a colonoscopy.

Older adults with dementia are much more likely to be victims of abuse at the hands of caregivers. Researchers are working on a tool to help physicians identify mistreatment during examinations.

Missed diabetes diagnoses identified by EMR screening were especially common in racial and ethnic minorities.

Sleep disturbances are consistently high throughout the course of psychosis, with later stages associated with distinctive brain wave activity during sleep, new research suggests.

Lesbians, many transgender men, and women who are not sexually active are at risk for cervical cancer and are recommended to undergo screening.

The proposed guidance would evaluate all potential donors on the basis of their individual risks of HIV infection.

The document provides a diagnostic algorithm and emphasizes the need for a multidisciplinary, individualized approach for this under-recognized cause of heart failure.

Even healthy women appear to have dramatically higher risks for heart attacks and strokes in the first decade after a preeclamptic pregnancy, a new study has found.

A new study explores the use of polygenic risk scores to assess the risk-benefit balance of early cancer detection testing. The study was published as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.

The researchers first investigated whether higher screen time (more than 1 hour a day on a device or watching television) at age 2 years is associated with neurodevelopmental outcomes at age 4.