Covid-19: Schedule breast screening before vaccine or 4 to 6 weeks after to avoid false positives, says guidance

Commentary: false premises, false promises and false positives--the case against mammographic screening for breast cancer.

I start it is important that I establish my credibility as my somewhat eccentric career allows me an unusual insight into the problem. First of all I come from a family with a bad history of breast cancer, which in part fuelled my zeal for entering this sub-specialty. Next I am a surgeon who has been at the front line of breast cancer treatment for over 30 years and during the latter half of th...

Streamed analysis of network files to avoid false positives and to detect client-side attacks

Attacks exploiting client-side vulnerabilities are common nowadays. Those attacks are more difficult to be addressed due the complexity of protocols and file formats. Generic detection mechanisms, such as code disassembly, are often inefficient against client-side vulnerabilities due to size constraints in the gateway inspection and the embedded encoding specific to some file formats. This arti...

Iranian Orthopedic Association (IOA) Response Guidance to COVID-19 Pandemic April 2020

Iranian Orthopedic Community as a part of the national health system feels deeply responsible to take part in the battle against the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Although we might not be considered the front-line defenders, we do have a key role in this challenge. As the crisis continues to grow in Iran, the risk of contracting the virus increases with subsequent increase in the number ...

Onm-4: Reproductive Factors Related to Cancerof the Breast, before and after Menopause;among Women Referring to Health Centers inTehran, 2005

Background: To find out those reproductive factors to incidence of breast cancer overall and by menopausal status. Materials and Methods: This was a case – control study, in which, the risk of menstrual, pregnancy- delivery and menopausal factors were determined in women with breast cancer (case) against those without (control). The risk factors stratified by menopausal status also. A total of ...

Virtual elimination of false positives in blue-white colony screening.