Officials have urged 2, 000 workers at the mail facility to undergo screening for the disease.
Anyone who has come into close contact with the woman, who has not been named, is being offered screening for the disease.
Dr. Schneider says that in Ireland people with a family history of Tay-Sachs may request testing, but routine screening for the disease isn't done.
He said they hoped it could one day lead to screening for presymptomatic heart disease.
BBC: Dundee researchers develop tests for early heart disease
The Prostate Cancer UK said more research efforts should be channelled into finding a better screening test for the disease.
Unlike for breast cancer, there is no screening programme for the disease.
Heart disease put the whole idea of risk screening on the map.
Too often, "the abnormality on the screening test has become the disease, " says Peter Bach, a pulmonologist and epidemiologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
John Shepherd, a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at St Bartholomew's, told the Sunday Telegraph the success of Britain's cervical cancer screening programme meant that the disease was being caught in its early stage in many more patients.
There is no special cancer screening recommended for patients with celiac disease.
The Peripheral Artery Disease Coalition of more than 50 organizations endorses ABI screening, and is lobbying the federal Preventive Services Task Force to review the test with the aim of getting it covered more widely by Medicare.
WSJ: Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) - When Achy Legs Are a Warning
Persons with a family history of colon cancer at an early age, or a history of inflammatory bowel disease such as ulcerative colitis, may benefit from screening at an earlier age and may be best served with colonoscopy rather than the other screening techniques.
When cardiac CT angiography is being used appropriately -- meaning, for example, in people with chest pain suggesting blocked heart arteries, rather than as a screening test for people with no symptoms of heart disease -- the benefits far outweigh the risk of the radiation, according to Einstein and Hausleiter.
Richard Winder, deputy national coordinator of NHS cancer screening programmes, said a minority of British women with the disease had mastectomies.
High-throughput screening uses robots to test the actions of thousands of compounds against a molecular disease target (itself identified by genomics).
In countries such as Tanzania, where nearly 4, 500 women die annually from the disease, the problem is exacerbated by an acute shortage of medical experts and a lack of quality screening services, especially in rural areas.
This suggests that low overall breast cancer survival in Denmark - the only country that had not fully implemented a national breast screening programme before 2007 - was due to women being diagnosed at a later stage of disease.
Evidence-based health screening has been introduced for the early detection of common ailments, such as cancer, heart disease, hypertension and diabetes mellitus.
No, screening everyone in the herd is often not worth it, we are now finding out across multiple disease prevention spheres.
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