Hiv test giving false positives in 5% of all cases - Thousands of people wrongly believe they are HIV infected because of the standard Western blot test which is giving false positive results in nearly 5...

New cancer test misses tumours - A new procedure for testing for cancer of the colon is worse than the standard test it would have replaced, researchers have discovered. ...

Cervical cancer: - A vaccine that glaxo thinks is great - Cervical cancer is invariably caused by the HPV (human papillomavirus) infection. Globally around 470,000 new cases are reported every year, and the...

Virus discounted in cervical cancer - The belief that a virus that causes genital warts is also the cause of cervical cancer has been discounted following a study of 200 women. ...

Cervical smears - Double-check this inaccurate test - If you’re a woman, your GP or gynaecologist undoubtedly press-gangs you into having a Pap smear test periodically to screen against cervical cancer....

Cervical Cancer: Calls for compulsory vaccine programme is funded by – the manufacturer - Such is the clamour for governments around the world to adopt mass immunisation programmes for adolescent girls against cervical cancer that a mass ra...

A new smear test - Perhaps it’s because we’ve now reached a reasonable size, or maybe it’s because we seem to have more influence these days. It may even be because word...

New foetal screening test risky for older mothers - Two leading London consultant obstetricians deplored the use of chorion villus sampling the new, earlier screening test for Down's syndrome on older w...