New technologies are helping to reduce the odds of a false-positive mammogram. (Getty Images) While experts are sympathetic to the stress false positives can cause, they're urging women to keep going ...

It may seem like finding a good therapist is left largely up to fate; however, there are some consistent predictors of positive therapy outcomes that effective therapists practice. Good therapy ...

Faulty drug tests given to thousands of California prisoners gave false results for opiates Prison advocates worry that the false positive results have tainted the parole decision for inmates.

A simple blood test can pick up cancer cases among patients who have been falsely reassured they do not have the disease, a study suggests. Experts from the University of Oxford and the diagnostics ...

Coronavirus Diaries is a series of dispatches exploring how the coronavirus is affecting people’s lives. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with An Luu, a 21-year-old senior at Rice ...