BACKGROUND Screening the general population for Chronic Kidney Disease is not currently recommended.. Rural and remote Canadian First Nations people suffer a disproportionate burden of Kidney Failure. The Fi rst N at i ons Community Based S creening to Improve Kidney He alth and Prevent D ialysis ( FINISHED ) project intends to test the hypothesis that a mobile, mass screening initiative availa...

creening is offered to apparently well individuals to identify those at high risk of a specific condition, for whom early treatment, more effective treatment, or information may be offered in order to improve health outcome or to provide opportunities for informed decision making. By definition, screening tests are not diagnostic tests and therefore cannot separate reliably those with a specifi...

he following article contains new recommendations for colorectal cancer screening, the first set we have published since 2003 (Winawer S, letcher R, Rex D, et al. Colorectal cancer screening and surveillance: clinical guidelines and rationale—update based on new evidence. astroenterology 2003;124:544–560.) The current recommendations have emerged through the participation of multiple national s...

S creening for gestational diabetes mellitus requires an oral glucose challenge test with a 50-g glucola beverage and venous blood sample after 1 h. A “positive screen” is defined as a venous blood glucose of either .130 mg/dL or 140 mg/dL (1,2), and the patient then undergoes a diagnostic fasting 3-h glucose tolerance test (GTT) with a 100-g glucola (1). However, up to 30% of pregnant women ca...

S creening for developmental hip disorders has been with us for almost 40 years. Twenty years ago Cliff Roberton famously called it a ‘‘mess’’. The paper by Roovers et al published in this issue reports the findings of an observational study to determine whether a strategy of universal ultrasound screening carried out after the newborn period is ‘‘more effective’’ than a strategy based on clini...