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  2. The New Alzheimer’s Disease Test You Should Know About - AOL

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    New research finds a blood test accurately diagnoses Alzheimer’s disease in patients. The blood test was 90% accurate in the study. This blood test is currently available in the U.S.

  3. Guardant's blood-based cancer test moves closer to Medicare ...

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    By Leroy Leo. (Reuters) - Guardant Health said its blood test to detect cancer that starts in the colon or rectum got an approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, with the test moving ...

  4. Likelihood ratios in diagnostic testing - Wikipedia

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    In evidence-based medicine, likelihood ratios are used for assessing the value of performing a diagnostic test. They use the sensitivity and specificity of the test to determine whether a test result usefully changes the probability that a condition (such as a disease state) exists. The first description of the use of likelihood ratios for ...

  5. Blood tests for Alzheimer's may be coming to your doctor's ...

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    WASHINGTON (AP) — New blood tests could help doctors diagnose Alzheimer’s disease faster and more accurately, researchers reported Sunday – but some appear to work far better than others. It ...

  6. IQ classification - Wikipedia

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    [31] [32] Not all report test results as "IQ", but most now report a standard score with a mean score level of 100. When a test-taker scores higher or lower than the median score, the score is indicated as 15 standard score points higher or lower for each standard deviation difference higher or lower in the test-taker's performance on the test ...

  7. Mantoux test - Wikipedia

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    The circular shape is known as a wheal response. The Mantoux test or Mendel–Mantoux test (also known as the Mantoux screening test, tuberculin sensitivity test, Pirquet test, or PPD test for purified protein derivative) is a tool for screening for tuberculosis (TB) and for tuberculosis diagnosis. It is one of the major tuberculin skin tests ...

  8. Expensive tissue hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The expensive tissue hypothesis ( ETH) relates brain and gut size in evolution (specifically in human evolution). It suggests that in order for an organism to evolve a large brain without a significant increase in basal metabolic rate (as seen in humans), the organism must use less energy on other expensive tissues; the paper introducing the ...

  9. Dave Ramsey says 'very few people' who look like they have ...

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    Americans are relatively wealthy by this measure too as 68% of Gen Z and millennial Americans have already received an inheritance or expect to receive one in the future, according to USA Today ...