A doctor and public health expert explains why the new federal guidelines expanding cervical cancer screening to at-home ...

Analyses of data from global cancer screening programmes reveal differences, in terms of organization and performance, between high- and low-income countries, and they highlight gaps in data ...

Christian Yates is a member of Independent SAGE. The UK is set to roll out a national lung cancer screening programme for people aged 55 to 74 with a history of smoking. The idea is to catch lung ...

The first NHS screening programme for prostate cancer could be given the green light this week, marking a game-changing opportunity to save thousands of lives. On Thursday, the Government’s National ...

The interval colorectal cancer rate is a robust indicator of the quality and effectiveness of a screening programme, enabling the identification of unmet requirements and development of specific ...

Newborn screening is transforming, as advances in genomic sequencing pave the way for earlier, more accurate diagnoses of ...

The successful delivery of NHS screening programmes is suffering due to poor and outdated IT, a National Audit Office (NAO) report has found. The report comes after ...

The final report of a review of adult screening programs in England led by Prof Sir Mike Richards, has been published. Screening looks for early signs of disease in apparently healthy people to aid ...

The cervical screening test is now routinely available in Alberta for people aged 50 to 69, screening for high-risk types of ...

This paper addresses if and how a periodic health examination to screen for risk factors for injury can be used to mitigate injury risk. The key question asked is whether it is possible to use ...