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  • Adaptive Biotechnologies, Strata Oncology, And More: News From August 2020

    Diagnostics World News | August featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including Adaptive Biotechnologies, Strata Oncology, and more.

    Aug 24, 2020
  • HHS Rescinds FDA’s Role in Regulating Lab-Developed Tests

    Diagnostics World News | After years of uncertainty over the future of laboratory developed tests (LDTs), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has determined the FDA does not have the authority to regulate lab-developed tests for any condition according to a rescission posted on Wednesday.

    Aug 21, 2020
  • Weakness of ICD-10 Codes, Role of Mobile Monitoring, Antibodies For Sale: COVID-19 Updates

    Diagnostics World News | Disturbing uptick in partner violence during the COVID-19 pandemic, ICD-10 codes insufficient for capturing COVID-19 related symptoms, the role of mobile health technologies to monitor patients at home, the role of children in community spread, and impact of different types of antibodies. Plus, neutralizing antibodies for sale.

    Aug 21, 2020
  • Race Matters When It Comes To Risk Calculators For Heart Disease

    Diagnostics World News | Measuring the concentration of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol particles is a more reliable predictor of heart disease and stroke than the standard metric of total HDL cholesterol—that is, unless you’re trying to assess the risk of a heart attack in someone who is black. Then, surprisingly, neither method is helpful.

    Aug 20, 2020
  • Older Adults Being Left Behind In The Migration To Telemedicine

    Diagnostics World News | More than one-third of U.S. adults over age 65 may face difficulties seeing their doctor via telemedicine, for reasons ranging from poor hearing and eyesight, dementia, to owning no internet-enabled devices. To build a more accessible telemedicine system will require taking steps to overcome both disability and the high prevalence of inexperience with technology in the senior population.

    Aug 18, 2020
  • AI-Based Tools Predict COVID-19 Disease Severity

    Diagnostics World | As health systems across the globe continue to deal with large numbers of COVID-19 cases, new and emerging technologies may be able to help in this regard.

    Aug 18, 2020
  • COVID-19 News: NIST Shares Synthetic Virus For Test Validation, Published Results of Retesting, More

    Diagnostics World News | New COVID-19 risk model developed by Cleveland Clinic and published findings from a retesting study. Plus, symptom trackers deployed by colleges for Back to School and quantified synthetic virus fragments available from NIST.

    Aug 14, 2020
  • PacBio, Asuragen Collaborate on Carrier Screening Assays

    Diagnostics World News | Pacific Biosciences and Asuragen have launched a clinical research collaboration aimed at developing molecular assays based on PacBio’s Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT) Sequencing technology.

    Aug 11, 2020
  • The Long Game On Telehealth

    Diagnostics World News | As the pandemic has dragged on, medical practices everywhere have also started thinking seriously about how to better fit telehealth into their patient care workflow over the long term.

    Aug 11, 2020
  • FDA Approves First COVID-19 Serology Tests, Other News

    Diagnostics World News | In a report in the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, researchers describe a cheaper, rapid, and accurate pooling strategy for the RT-PCR-based detection of SARS-CoV-2 in clinical samples. Elsewhere, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized the first two COVID-19 serology tests that display an estimated quantity of antibodies present in the individual’s blood. This, plus more, is included in this week’s COVID-19 news and research in the diagnostics industry.

    Aug 7, 2020
  • Next Generation Dx Summit Goes Virtual Offering Even More Content, Opportunities

    Diagnostics World NewsThe Next Generation Dx Summit is going virtual later this month, offering a rich content experience with even more opportunity to learn through on demand sessions, live panel discussions, and plenty of digital networking events including a robust exhibit hall.

    Aug 6, 2020
  • Follow the Money: Pan-Cancer Liquid Biopsy Investments, CBC from Finger-Stick Blood

    Diagnostics World News | Big investments in liquid biopsy this month, with $257M for a pan-cancer test from Thrive Earlier Detection and another $72M for complete blood count analysis from finger-stick blood. COVID-19 gets diagnostics funding too, pushing toward six million daily tests.

    Aug 5, 2020
  • MUSC Stretching ICU Surge Capacity To Statewide Proportions

    Diagnostics World News | The Medical University of South Carolina is trying to quickly stand up a telemedicine system to increase ICU surge capacity across the state during the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.

    Aug 4, 2020
  • Ancestry Launches NGS Tests With Family History Component

    Diagnostics World News | Ancestry has launched AncestryHealth powered by Next Generation Sequencing. It is an upgrade to AncestryDNA + Traits, adding genetic health risk reports, a family health history tool, and other resources.

    Aug 4, 2020
  • European Diagnostics Market In Flux During, After COVID-19

    Diagnostics World News | In June, the Economist Intelligence Unit released an overview of the European in vitro diagnostics market pre- and post-COVID-19.

    Aug 3, 2020
  • New Testing Methods, Analysis of Sampling Techniques: COVID-19 Updates

    Diagnostics World News | Diagnostic methods for SARS-CoV-2 are being refined with researchers studying sampling techniques, identifying early biomarkers of severe disease, and more. The diagnostics industry continues to rise to the need, releasing new tests and sharing resources to speed diagnosis and patient stratification.

    Jul 31, 2020
  • Thermo Fisher Scientific, Proscia, And More: News From July 2020

    Diagnostics World News | July featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including Thermo Fisher Scientific, Proscia, and more.

    Jul 30, 2020
  • Experience Of Kaiser Permanente Oncology Providers With Telehealth Mostly Positive

    Diagnostics World News | Most cancer care providers with Kaiser Permanente in Northern California report high satisfaction with telehealth and would like to “maintain or increase” the rate at which it gets used in lieu of in-person patient visits.

    Jul 28, 2020
  • World-first Research Can Detect COVID-19 In 20 Minutes, Other News

    Diagnostics World News | World-first research by Monash University in Australia has been able to detect positive COVID-19 cases using blood samples in about 20 minutes and identify whether someone has contracted the virus. This, plus more, is included in this week’s COVID-19 news and research in the diagnostics industry.

    Jul 24, 2020
  • Alexa, What’s Your Role In Telemedicine?

    Diagnostics World News | Amazon’s popular chatbot is helping stem the tide of frequently asked health questions, breaking new ground on what telemedicine could look like.

    Jul 23, 2020