Medical Tests Evaluations done to provide information on health and to assist in identification of a condition or diagnosis of disease or injury. Medical tests are used to provide information to health care providers about a person's health...

Advances in medical diagnostics in the early twentieth century armed physicians with new tools and methods for diagnosing the maladies of their patients. Scientists borrowed from recent advances in physics, chemistry, and microbiology to create...

A medical test is a kind of medical procedure performed to diagnose, detect, or evaluate disease and disease processes. A determined course of treatment may follow, based in part on information the tests have...

Thousands of cancer patients in the U.S., Canada and other countries have had their medical tests postponed because of a problem with a Canadian nuclear reactor that produces medical isotopes used to diagnose and treat such cases.The isotope shortage is the result of a prolonged...

Canada's House of Commons passed emergency legislation late Tuesday aimed at bypassing the Canadian nuclear safety watchdog and putting a swift end to a critical shortage of a radioactive substance used in diagnostic medical tests.The bill would allow Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. to immediately...

Thousands of patients are facing delays in crucial medical tests because of a shortage of a radioactive substance used in those examinations — all because of the shutdown of one nuclear reactor in Canada.The substance is used in at least 15 million medical scans a...

Thousands of cancer patients in the U.S., Canada and other countries have had their medical tests postponed because of a problem with a Canadian nuclear reactor that produces medical isotopes used to diagnose and treat such cases.The isotope shortage is the result of a prolonged...