Original Articles

Claudio Celentano, Federico Prefumo, Irene Iezzi, Paolo Emilio Guanciali-Franchi, Chiara Palka, Marco Liberati, and Sigfried Rotmensch

Cystic hygroma and mid-trimester maternal serum screening
J Med Screen 14(3): 109-112; doi:10.1258/096914107782066167 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Léon Mutesa, François Boemer, Louis Ngendahayo, Stephen Rulisa, Emmanuel K Rusingiza, Neniling Cwinya-Ay, Déogratias Mazina, Pierre C Kariyo, Vincent Bours, and Roland Schoos

Neonatal screening for sickle cell disease in Central Africa: a study of 1825 newborns with a new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay test
J Med Screen 14(3): 113-116; doi:10.1258/096914107782066211 [Abstract] [PDF]  

L King, R Fraser, M Forbes, M Grindley, S Ali, and M Reid

Newborn sickle cell disease screening: the Jamaican experience (1995–2006)
J Med Screen 14(3): 117-122; doi:10.1258/096914107782066185 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Andrée Durieux-Smith, Alice Eriks-Brophy, Janet Olds, and Robin Gaines

The impact of newborn hearing screening on communication development
J Med Screen 14(3): 123-131; doi:10.1258/096914107782066248 [Abstract] [PDF]  

J A Burch, K Soares-Weiser, D J B St John, S Duffy, S Smith, J Kleijnen, and M Westwood

Diagnostic accuracy of faecal occult blood tests used in screening for colorectal cancer: a systematic review
J Med Screen 14(3): 132-137; doi:10.1258/096914107782066220 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sophia Zackrisson, Lars Janzon, Jonas Manjer, and Ingvar Andersson

Improved survival rate for women with interval breast cancer – results from the breast cancer screening programme in Malmö, Sweden 1976–1999
J Med Screen 14(3): 138-143; doi:10.1258/096914107782066239 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Richard Muwonge, Stephen D Walter, Ramani S Wesley, Partha Basu, Surendra S Shastri, Somanathan Thara, Charles Gombe Mbalawa, Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan, and The IARC Multicentre Study Group on Cervical Cancer Early Detection

Assessing the gain in diagnostic performance when two visual inspection methods are combined for cervical cancer prevention
J Med Screen 14(3): 144-150; doi:10.1258/096914107782066158 [Abstract] [PDF]  

J K Morris and N J Wald

The effect of correlations between screening markers on screening performance
J Med Screen 14(3): 151-157; doi:10.1258/096914107782066149 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Letter to the Editor

Roshan Colah, Mariamma Thomas, and Pramod Mayekar

Assessing the impact of screening and counselling high school children for β-thalassaemia in India
J Med Screen 14(3): 158; doi:10.1258/096914107782066202 [PDF]  

News

When screening is not enough - folic acid fortification news
J Med Screen 14(3): 159; doi:10.1258/096914107782066176 [PDF]  

Miscellanea

Health Technology Assessment Programme
J Med Screen 14(3): 160-162; doi:10.1258/096914107782066194 [PDF]  

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