Sentence examples for screening exams from inspiring English sources

And be sure to keep up with medical checkups and screening exams.

Dr. Markowitz joined the center in 1998 as associate director, and directs a program that offers health education and free medical screening exams to thousands of workers who produced nuclear weapons for the United States government.

Lately, I've noticed a surfeit of patients coming to my office (internal medicine) having undergone nonindicated screening exams that now "require" follow-up at regular intervals with further tests and scans (carotid scans, leg artery scans and so on).

But if some people are cutting back on vaccinations, are they also cutting back on screening exams like Pap smears, mammograms or colonoscopies that can either detect cancer or mitigate its consequences?

The ruling came after more than four years of litigation in which the city and the Fire Department stood accused by the Justice Department and, later, the Vulcan Society, a fraternal organization of black firefighters, of using screening exams that had a disparate impact on black and Hispanic candidates for entry-level firefighter positions.

Indeed, the last decade has seen a boom in what hospitals and health care companies call "executive physicals" — batteries of screening exams for apparently healthy people, purporting to ferret out hidden disease with the zeal of Homeland Security officers searching for terrorists.

The greater than 20% chance of mistakenly ranking a non-screening exam as more likely to be screening than a screening exam is not sufficiently accurate for most research purposes.

Colonoscopy is the most accurate and most expensive screening exam.

Yet Hernandez had passed a psychological screening exam before he went pro.

School nurses and even teachers can be trained to do a 30-second screening exam for spinal abnormalities.

Dr. Koester, who conducts hundreds of the exams each year, urges examiners to perform an 11-part screening exam for musculoskeletal problems.