Sentence examples for risky tests from inspiring English sources

Any screening test can lead to false positives, followed by invasive and risky tests.

Some cardiologists contend that scanning the hearts of healthy people can cause harm if insignificant findings prompt invasive and potentially risky tests like coronary angiography and treatments like bypass surgery.

The chair of the task force, pediatrician Virginia Moyer at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, acknowledged in a prepared statement that "there is a critical need for a better [prostate cancer] test one that leads to early detection of cancers that threaten men's health, but minimizes unnecessary, risky tests and treatments that do not lead to longer or more healthful lives".

It represents a big, risky test for the bank and for African development policies.

What unfolded in the theater appears to have amounted to a risky test of a previously undisclosed chemical agent that ended with disastrously unintended consequences.

What unfolded in the theater appears to have amounted to a risky test of a previously undisclosed chemical agent that ended disastrously.

Some senior Pentagon officials have warned that the administration's schedule is much too accelerated and therefore risky, because testing would continue even as construction has begun.

"Screening... is optional and, for women who choose to have it, the provision of NIPT will mean fewer will face the difficult prospect of risky invasive testing.

But as important as screening is, excessive and inappropriate testing can lead to "a cascade of unnecessary, costly and in some cases risky follow-up tests and treatment," said Dr. John Santa, director of the health ratings center at Consumer Reports Health.

That could include reviewing more risky or controversial tests with an independent ethics board, or allowing users some way to find out if they've quietly been placed into an experiment.

While persons testing HIV seronegative may not change their risky behaviors, persons testing HIV seropositive tend to reduce their sexual transmission risk behaviors significantly [ 289– 291].