With DIY Home Medical Tests, Don’t Believe What You See... DIY projects might be fun when building a new gardening shed, but think twice—no, three times—before doing any home medical tests. The results you get are just as likely to be wrong as they are likely to be correct. Yikes! Talk about a new mode for medical errors. 40% wrong = random answer. Selected Excerpt: “ research published last week in the journal Genetics in Medicine, revealed a 40 percent false-positive rate, highlighting the importance of confirming DTC raw data before making any medical decisions.” …see more