A woman who survived cervical cancer says she is concerned about changes to cervical screening that come into effect today.

PTSD and trauma often remain hidden until it's too late—but what if a simple blood test could change that? Army veteran and ...

For an assessment, a health care provider will order the test to be shipped to a patient’s home. A small device pricks the arm for a blood sample, which takes about two minutes.

So they recommend screening. That involves a blood test that detects antibodies to the causative organism. There is a two-step process used to improve the diagnostic accuracy.

The report said that the VA treated more than 438,000 veterans for PTSD in 2010, showing evidence of the widespread scope of the problem. Similar numbers are not available for the Defense Department.

How do you test for PTSD? There are several ways to test for PTSD, including self-assessment questionnaires, interviews, and psychological testing. The best, most validated questionnaire is called the ...

Results: Penalized regression analysis suggested a screening tool that sums the Likert scale values of two PCL-5 questions—intrusive thoughts of the stressful experience (#1) and insomnia (#21). This ...

Mental health professionals diagnose PTSD using screening tools, structured interviews, and self-report questionnaires. They can use tests and assessments that take anywhere from 15 minutes to 2 ...

The results are consistent with the existing literature, which characterizes PTSD and C-PTSD as exposure to a traumatic event and three groups of symptoms, including: personal experience of an event ...

Introduction An acute type A aortic dissection classically presents with abrupt onset of severe pain. 1 The initiating aortic tear instigates a series of swift, painful, and life‐threatening events—a ...