While the American Cancer Society does not recommend “routine” prostate-specific antigen screening for men, there's a lot to ...

As you’re sitting in a bathroom waiting for the lines on your pregnancy test to appear, it can be daunting. You can be ...

To develop the test, researchers analyzed 6553 blood samples, 3076 from patients with cancer and 3477 from healthy ...

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 ...

False-positive mammograms are causing women to skip follow-up screenings, risking their breast health. Find out why staying on schedule matters.

Thousands of California prisoners falsely tested positive for opioids last year because of a laboratory mistake. Now hundreds of decisions to deny parole to some of those prisoners are getting a ...

Getting a false positive on a mammogram — especially if it's accompanied by a recommendation for follow-up visits or a biopsy — could keep patients from seeking future screening, according to ...

False-positive mammography results are linked to an increased risk of future breast cancer. But many people who get a false-positive don't return for screenings.

Since false-positive Hinton reactions have been reported in tuberculosis, the positive serologic reactions obtained in this case may not have been due to chicken pox.

False-positive results are common, especially among younger women. They occur in 10-12% of mammograms in women 40-49 years of age. After 10 years of annual screenings, ...

A Lafayette well tested positive for E. coli in March, triggering a public notice in May and June water bills. The positive test was determined to be a false positive, posing no danger to the public.