About Screening
Screening, in medicine, is a strategy used in a population to identify the possible presence of an as-yet-undiagnosed disease in individuals without signs or symptoms. This can include individuals with pre-symptomatic or unrecognized symptomatic disease.
Are Iranian schoolgirls being poisoned by toxic gas?
... Mr Kaszeta said biomedical tests - like blood and urine Screening - could provide an answer, but were complicated by the number of possible culprits...
Smear tests: GP waiting times putting women off cervical screening
...By Annabel RackhamBBC News" I got my cervical Screening letter in November and I ve been putting it off because I don t want to do it - I don t think any girl really wants it done to them...
Cancer: High Street pharmacists to make referrals
... It also plans to offer Jewish people genetic Screening - as up to one in 40 has Brca mutations, linked to a higher risk of breast, ovarian and prostate cancers, compared with one in 400 in the general population...
Asylum seekers: Home Office taking 'substantially longer' on claims
... After they have made an application, they will go to a Screening - a meeting with an immigration officer - where they will be asked why they want asylum...
Coronation Street's cancer storyline: life is not a fairy tale
... The tragic action comes at a time when cervical cancer-Screening-rates - a test that checks the health of their cervix to help prevent cancer, are your...