New technologies are helping to reduce the odds of a false-positive mammogram. (Getty Images) While experts are sympathetic to the stress false positives can cause, they're urging women to keep going ...

Mammograms can detect cancers early and save lives, but a new study on false-positive mammograms worries Dr. Elizabeth Arguelles. “I was very concerned and disheartened,” said Arguelles, the Director ...

Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC’s electronic surveillance framework for hospitalized children could, if deployed elsewhere, reduce the rate of false-positive diagnoses of serious health ...

A recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine has shed light on a concerning issue in mammogram screening behavior, women who receive false-positive results are significantly less likely ...

Social media posts making the false claim have also made misleading suggestions that mammograms, opens new tab - an X-ray of the breast that is used to look for cancers that are too small to see or ...

A comprehensive literature review was conducted for all medications on the formulary of Bedlam Clinic, a free evening clinic for the medically indigent or working poor, offered by the University of ...