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Diagnostics World News | Researchers have their sights set on creating a first-of-its-kind anatomical map of the vagus nerve. Stavros Zanos of the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research is leading a three-year-long research study called Reconstructing Vagal Anatomy. The NIH-supported project plans to share the map with the greater scientific community in hopes of leading to new breakthroughs in the field of bioelectronic medicine.
Dec 8, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | A research team from The Ohio State University and Foundation Medicine suggests that tumor fraction has the potential to serve as a pragmatic, tumor-agnostic prognostic tool. They published their results in Annals of Oncology last month.
Dec 6, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | A deep learning model that uses a single chest X-ray to predict the 10-year risk of death from a heart attack or stroke; a new blood test to improve early detection and diagnosis of clinically significant prostate cancer in patients by minimizing unnecessary invasive tissue biopsies; real-time PCR technology to screen for spinal muscular atrophy and severe combined immunodeficiency using a single dried blood spot sample; and more.
Nov 30, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Funding for chronic kidney disease and acute kidney injury genetic testing, minimal residual disease testing for solid tumors, and more.
Nov 29, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht in the Netherlands plans to deploy Paige AI applications for routine clinical use and conduct a clinical health economics study to support the adoption and reimbursement of AI applications in pathology.
Nov 22, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | High-resolution mass spectrometry methods are in principle “good enough” to put into clinics everywhere to measure low-abundance environmental chemicals and start cataloguing individual exposures. With a focus on the “exposome"—the measure of all the exposures of an individual in a lifetime and how those exposures relate to health—healthcare professionals are examining clinical exposomics as a foundation for precision medicine.
Nov 17, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Fitbit smartwatches and fitness trackers can be outfitted with an algorithm that can detect abnormal heart rhythms. At least that is suggested by findings of a recent study where the algorithm was found to have a high positive predictive value (98%) for atrial fibrillation.
Nov 15, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | After nearly three years of dealing with COVID-19, the last thing anyone wants to hear is news of another looming global health crisis. Unlike COVID-19, this one has been lurking for some time. Scientists, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and patients have a unique ability and responsibility to address the problem before it gets out of control. The looming crisis is antimicrobial resistance.
Nov 11, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | A Yale research team discovered that newborn metabolic screening data could identify human ancestry and help practitioners diagnose genetic diseases.
Nov 10, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | A recent study revealed that people ages 65 and older who caught COVID-19 were more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease shortly thereafter. The findings showed that the risk of developing Alzheimer’s almost doubled in this population of older adults over the one-year period following a COVID-19 diagnosis.
Nov 8, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Diagnosing sepsis is a longstanding challenge in medicine because the clinical signs and symptoms are nonspecific and, in the absence of a gold standard for identifying patients with the disease, the focus has remained largely on identifying the culprit pathogen. But an assay developed by University of California, San Francisco researchers that deploys metagenomic next-generation sequencing of both pathogens and host immune response could be a real gamechanger.
Nov 3, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Robust levels of large extracellular vesicles (LEVs) were found “hiding in plain sight” in the blood of early-stage breast cancer patients in a recent study led by a team of scientists at the University of Southern California. The LEVs are roughly the size of a cell and found while using a high-definition liquid biopsy platform to stratify normal donors from those with early- or late-stage breast cancer.
Nov 1, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Clinical whole exome sequencing services identify possible disease-causing genetic changes; a composite biomarker system uses multiple clinically relevant patient features to reflect the heterogeneity of graft failure; a regulatory science tool improves the review processes for stroke rehabilitation devices; and more.
Oct 27, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Funding for biomarker analysis for patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, improving early diagnosis and survival rates of patients with nasopharyngeal cancer, genome sequencing analysis of the Epstein-Barr virus, and more.
Oct 26, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | A medical technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, expects its pioneering Gastric Alimetry wearable device for diagnosing gut disorders will one day do for gastroenterology what ECG testing for heart abnormalities has done for cardiology.
Oct 20, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | A University of Birmingham research team is developing a rapid diagnostic test for gum disease, a tool they foresee assisting in the early detection of heart and lung disease, type 2 diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Oct 19, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | A team of French and Canadian investigators found that smartwatches often misdiagnose atrial fibrillation patients with at least one preexisting heart condition, insinuating that smartwatches may not be as smart as we think.
Oct 18, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | A team of Swedish researchers from Uppsala and Lund Universities created the first large-scale microbial atlas, linking gut microbiota to specific metabolites and their potential health impact on humans.
Oct 13, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Screenings for heart-related conditions have woven their way into routine health care, like the blood pressure checks that take place at many medical appointments. So why isn’t there a quick and easy method to regularly evaluate brain health? It’s a question some are looking to address with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning-based approaches.
Oct 11, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Research institutes representing five western European countries—Finland, Germany, Norway, Spain, and Sweden—will become the first to join the Federated European Genome-phenome Archive, an international distributed data network designed to share highly-sensitive human ’omics data internationally.
Oct 6, 2022