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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is advising doctors and other health care providers to consider testing for Swine influenza in patients who present with flu-like symptoms. If the initial flu test is positive for influenza A, the laboratory performing the initial test will send the sample to their state Public Health Laboratory or the CDC to perform tests that detect the swine-origin H1N1 virus. Read more.

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Researchers from the International Warfarin Pharmacogenetics Consortium recently reported results from their study of a potentially new way to estimate a starting dose of the anticoagulant warfarin based on patients' genetic information.

Two new studies of prostate cancer screening yield ambiguous results and leave questions about whether such screening is really useful in preventing death from prostate cancer.

Findings from a recent study suggest that newer immunochemical colon cancer screening tests that use antibodies to identify human blood in stool are more accurate than older screening tests based on chemical reactions.