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false positive - A positive assay result that should have been negative. [FAO]

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Reducing the Probability of False Positive Research Findings by ...  -  21 Aug 2007
Nature.com (subscription),We have assessed the utility of a pre-publication validation policy in reducing the probability of publishing false positive research findings.

Spybot Search & Destroy 1.4  -  21 Aug 2007
PC WorldSpybot passed all of our false positive tests, correctly detecting legitimate toolbars and 6285 other sample files. It did reasonably well in our

Child abuse or accident? Diverse team weighs in  -  21 Aug 2007
Arizona Republic,The toxicologist said there was something odd about the test and thought it could be a false positive. "Did anyone look in his eyes?

Industrial Test Systems Announces Free Chlorine Water Check Test  -  21 Aug 2007
Water Online (press release),According to the EPA letter; "The false positive and false negative rates were below 0–1%. Method precision and accuracy were characterized in multiple

Search Engines On Click Fraud  -  21 Aug 2007
Search Engine RoundtableThe main incentives is to attack advertisers and inflate your affiliate income. Google builds in an intentionally high false positive rate.

Faulty blood-test kits found in Durgapur  -  21 Aug 2007
Kolkata Newsline,But while performing tests in Durgapur, it showed false positive results. We have concluded that the kits are defective and immediately informed the state

False-Positive Positron-Emission Tomography-CT of a Teflon ...  -  Aug 13, 2007
AJNR (subscription),...left parapharyngeal granulomatous mass. This is the first reported case of a Teflon granuloma presenting as a false-positive parapharyngeal mass.

False Positive: Bush's Deadly Odor of Mendacity  -  Aug 8, 2007
Atlantic Free Press,...by Chris Floyd President Bush's many media sycophants tell us over and over that he is not the dribbling idiot of popular imagination.

A look back at E. Coli in city water: What happened?  -  Aug 19, 2007
Corpus Christi Caller Times,Literature from the company indicates a false positive rate of about 1 percent. In some cases, however, it should be clear to lab technicians that a false

The effect of false-positive cancer tests, including mammograms  -  Jul 31, 2007
TopCancerNews.com,Danish researchers, in a new study in Value in Health authored by Dr. John Brodersen, studied the effect of false-positive cancer tests,

Medical Monitoring and Medical Standards  -  Aug 17, 2007
Point of Law,While the yield of screening is low in those at low risk for coronary heart disease, there is a high potential for harm from false-positive tests.

Further Research Needed On Impact Of False-Positive Breast Cancer ...  -  Jul 23, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),The survey showed that women who had an abnormal screening mammography later confirmed to be false-positive were negatively influenced in all six categories

Infection test for false joints  -  Aug 15, 2007
BBC News,Another potential problem is that bacteria normally found on the skin can be picked up on the tissue specimen as it is extracted, yielding a false-positive

The gift of life  -  Aug 10, 2007
Shelbyville Times-Gazette,The reason was a false positive test for hepatitis, many years back. I don't know what caused the false positive reading -- a lab error, or perhaps some

Health News  -  Aug 19, 2007
The Herald,A total of 17 false-positive reactions to the placebo occurred in 17 different children, meaning the children developed food allergy symptoms after being

Women's silent killer  -  Aug 20, 2007
Shreveport Times,CA-125 tests for a protein found at levels in most ovarian cancers, but it can also be elevated for several other reasons and has a high false positive rate

Anti-virus struggles on protecting 64-bit Vista computer systems  -  Aug 3, 2007
TECH.BLORGE.com,...“A false positive can cause as much disruption as a virus infection. False warnings often lead end-users to delete valid files in the belief that they are

Spare the poppy seeds  -  Aug 13, 2007
Asbury Park Press,Experts say a 300-nanogram count can result in a false-positive test caused by a poppy seed roll consumed up to 24 hours earlier. Those rolls and bagels are

HPV Chart (Graphic: Business Wire)  -  Jul 23, 2007
Genetic Engineering News (press release),The nation's first routine test for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) using DNA sequencing which eliminates the false positive test results associated

New method to detect infection in prosthetic joints  -  Aug 19, 2007
News-Medical.net,...normally found on the skin can be picked up on the tissue specimen as it is extracted and passes through the skin, yielding a false-positive result.

TSA's "Behavior Detection Officers"  -  Aug 18, 2007
SlashdotOdds are you're safe if you don't sweat (quite literally) by kypper (446750) on Saturday August 18, @09:02AM (#20275273) Or a fear of a false positive...

The Tommy Morrison HIV Saga Continues  -  Jul 23, 2007
BoxingScene.com,Over a decade later, Morrison, who claimed his 1996 HIV test was actually a false-positive, made his return to the ring in February to stop journeyman John

New drug policy  -  Aug 20, 2007
Wellington Daily News,Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), possible litigation for false positive results, and the effect it would have on the children.

Revised Proposal for Air Travel Screening Tackles Privacy Concerns  -  Aug 9, 2007
Washington Post,They also are to be asked if they are willing to provide their date of birth and sex to reduce the chance of false-positive matches with names on the watch

Placebo effect seen in kids during allergy testing  -  Aug 13, 2007
ReutersA total of 17 (12.9 percent) false-positive reactions to the placebo occurred in 17 different children, meaning the children developed food allergy symptoms

Danville bank evacuated, checked for bomb  -  Aug 15, 2007
San Jose Mercury News,Investigators are not sure why the dog gave a false positive. The bag may have previously been used for something else that may have been in contact with

Gut Feelings May Trump Evidence-Based Medicine When Choosing PCI  -  Aug 20, 2007
Medscape (subscription)...even extended to patients whom participants agreed should not have undergone any testing or for whom a test result was believed to be false positive.

MRI More Effective in Detecting Ductal Carcinoma In-Situ (DCIS ...  -  Aug 20, 2007
Cancer Consultants (press release),Although MRI has been reported to detect more breast cancers than mammography, it is also much more expensive and more likely to produce false-positive test

Ticket to fly?  -  Aug 17, 2007
Economist,That means something like one in ten travellers can expect to be erroneously plucked from the line as a “false positive�?. Having an error-prone screening

False positives can prove expensive  -  Aug 13, 2007
ITWeb,...its submission to a local utilities company was incorrectly quarantined (a false positive) and was deemed not to have 'arrived' on time," added Wittles.

Scan is not so new  -  Jul 30, 2007
Malaysia Star,In comparison, amniocentesis detects 100% of Down syndrome with a 0% false positive rate. While the FTS is a screening test for Down Syndrome,

ACI Worldwide Introduces Fraud Risk Calculator for Banks  -  Aug 20, 2007
Bobsguide,...“Ultimately, the best way to measure the success is to have a balance of three elements: point of detection, false positive rates and finally the detection

I was just diagnosed with Lyme disease, but I heard the blood test ...  -  Jul 29, 2007
Scienceline,Depending on how high your antibody titer is, labs may also do a Western blot analysis, used to weed out the all-too-common false-positive Lyme test.

Prison tests keeping out some drugs, and visitors  -  Jul 26, 2007
Fort Worth Star Telegram,The prison machines identify drugs by a limited marker, which may be common to other substances and result in a false positive. That is an area that needs

A doctor explains blood doping  -  Jul 24, 2007
VeloNews,...(A false positive occurs when the test reads positive, but the athlete has not been doping.) The answer to all these questions would seem to be yes.

Avoid supplements Texas officials should proceed with random ...  -  Jul 23, 2007
Houston Chronicle,However, reports that dietary supplements could cause false positive test results have thrown the steroid testing program for a 10-yard loss. Gov.

Majority of deliveries done by woman's obstetrician  -  Aug 14, 2007
CTV.ca,..."But in fact it has a very high false positive rate, meaning that when you think it's positive, when you think there's an abnormality there,

MRI Detects Early Breast Cancer Cells  -  Aug 10, 2007
CBS News,But false positive results remain the biggest impediment to the use of breast MRI in the screening of average-risk women, Saslow says.

August 18, 2007: DW Rutledge addresses issues with local coaches ...  -  Aug 18, 2007
MyWestTexas.com,..."Like (Quisenberry) brought up, we don't want a kid buying something over the counter that he feels like is wholesome, then it comes up as a false positive

Prison guard returns to work  -  Aug 9, 2007
Asbury Park Press,A test with a 300-nanogram cutoff can show a false positive for someone who eats even a single poppy seed roll in the 24 hours before giving a urine sample,

Trend Micro fails anti-malware test  -  Aug 3, 2007
VNUNet.com,..."A false positive can cause as much disruption as a virus infection and false warnings often lead end-users to delete valid files in the belief that they

Fired jailer rejects job offer, claiming drug test flawed  -  Jul 27, 2007
Asbury Park Press,He has called the results of the March 17, 2006, screening a false positive and blamed it on poppy seed rolls he ate that morning and the previous evening.

Oki Japan bring iris scanning to existing cellphones  -  Aug 19, 2007
Portalino,...another layer of security on any device that has a camera of at least 1 megapixel and is claimed to only give one false positive for every 100000 scans.

Challenge/Response and "Spam Index" conversation roundup  -  Aug 6, 2007
Computerworld,Fact is, state of the art spam filters catch 95-99% of spam, with a vanishingly-small false positive rate. Such spam filters use a combination of techniques

Anti virus struggles on 64-bit Vista  -  Aug 2, 2007
VNUNet.com,..."A false positive can cause as much disruption as a virus infection," John Hawes, technical consultant at Virus Bulletin commented.

MRI Beats Mammograms at Spotting Early Breast Cancer  -  Aug 10, 2007
Forbes,Also, MRI was not associated with many false positive findings. The positive predictive value of both methods was similar -- 55 percent for mammography and

MRI More Sensitive than Mammogaphy for Intraductal Breast Cancer  -  Aug 10, 2007
Insider Medicine,However, because this increased sensitivity can also lead to false positive results, which requires breast biopsy procedures, MRI screening is not currently

Radiologic Evaluation of Acute Chest Pain-Suspected Myocardial ...  -  Aug 14, 2007
American Family Physician...perfusion imaging typically requires transport of the patient to the imaging suite, and false-positive and false-negative results are not uncommon.

Clinical Briefs  -  Jul 30, 2007
U.S. Medicine,The test gave fewer false negative results, but slightly more false positive results. According to FDA, a false negative test result, when the cancer has

The MMA News Report 07.25.07  -  Jul 24, 2007
411mania.com,Nate Marquardt was victim of a false positive, so could Sherk. 2) IFL planning comprehensive testing in 2008. Kurt Otto, commissioner of the IFL,

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