Can I altogether dispense with tests for fasting Blood Sugar and rely only on Hb A1C?
People have long been familiar with tests for heritable diseases, and the use of genetics to trace ancestry — the new "Roots" — is becoming familiar as well.
Current controversies about the significance and proper management of such tumors could be resolved with tests for molecular markers that accurately forecast a tumor's behavior.
The agency approved testing federal workers for four prescription painkillers — OxyContin, Vicodin, Percocet and Dilaudid — last year, along with tests for heroin metabolites.
It is now part of the nationally recommended panel of tests for newborns, along with tests for things like PKU and thyroid disease.
An advantage of the viral approach, according to Evan Jones, chairman and chief executive officer of Digene, is that the test can be combined with tests for chlamydia and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's education agenda was defined by a ratcheting up of the stakes associated with tests for students and schools, and a strong focus on judging teachers using data gleaned from exam results.
With the discovery of a colon cancer gene last summer, medical experts suddenly were confronted with tests for cancer genes that were present in large numbers of people, particularly Ashkenazi Jews.
Reproductive behavior was assessed with tests for copulation, partner preference, and 50-kHz vocalizations during forced consumption (intoxication) and again after a 4 5 week period of abstinence.
One plan now under consideration by the President's top advisers is for a gradual resumption of underground tests by the United States, starting with tests for peaceful uses of nuclear energy, to which Russian observers would be invited.
