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Britain Is Building a National Genetic Screening Service on Scores That Miss Nine of Every Ten Cases
In 2019 the same company's test convinced a health secretary he might die of prostate cancer. He was near average. Now its scores are heading into a biobank of five million Britons and the NHS's new prevention service.
Metabolic & WeightEurope Wants Every Heart Patient Tested for Kidney Disease. The Test Is Cheap. The Drugs It Funnels You Toward Are Not.
The European Society of Cardiology now says screen every heart patient for kidney damage and start the drugs early. More than 80 percent of the guideline's authors report financial ties to industry.
CancerDecades of Cancer Warning Signs, and Still No Proof They Save Lives
England's cancer-awareness campaigns sent more people to the doctor for a decade. The reviews still can't show they caught a single cancer earlier or cut deaths, while the cancers that kill fastest stay silent until it's already too late.
CancerThe Same Cancer Mutation, Opposite Effects: What 581 Mouse Tumors Say About Who Gets Sick
Cambridge and Yale gave four strains of mice one identical dose of a carcinogen. The tumors converged on the same pathway but took four different genetic routes to get there, and today's screening ignores the reason.