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Diagnostics World News | In recent months, newly published findings on topics such as family history and the role of the gut microbiome continue to shed light on colorectal cancer, and emerging tools like AI-based screening and a “smart toilet” point toward new possibilities.
Jun 9, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Research news in COVID-19 diagnostics from China’s CDC and the University of Maryland. New tools and technologies are coming from BioDot, Longhorn, and more.
Jun 5, 2020
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Diagnostics World News Contributed Commentary | Despite the benefits, the potential of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) to serve as a liquid biopsy for cancer has been underutilized, mostly due to the inability to acquire intact CTCs, along with the associated technical challenges. More importantly, until now, the role of CTC information in the design of oncology clinical trials has been greatly overlooked.
Jun 3, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | When COVID-19 hit the U.S., a multitude of emergency waivers to the federal statute governing telehealth were necessary to ensure Medicare-age patients could see their doctor and healthcare providers could continue practicing medicine. In the political arena, some saw this as an example of the overly regulated nature of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. To others, it simply signaled the need to update CMS rules specific to telehealth.
Jun 2, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | This week has seen diagnostics continue to play a vital role in combating the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 29, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | A multidisciplinary team of researchers has developed a machine learning algorithm shown to be “slightly better” than 11 neurologists at diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease in a head-to-head comparison.
May 28, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | May featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including FNIH, Foundation Medicine, Certara, and more.
May 27, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Healthcare providers across the country have unexpectedly become part of a forced natural experiment in rapid telemedicine deployment that will be providing answers about the technology’s potential, limitations and unintended consequences.
May 26, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | A proposed point-of-care diagnostics platform would use either nanoparticles or magnetic levitation to diagnose COVID-19 infection and assess future risk. An online COVID Digital Pathology Repository. These and other news are included as we round up the week’s research and industry news for COVID-19.
May 22, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Four years ago, a small group of hospitalists launched TeleHealth Solution to address identified issues in the existing healthcare delivery model—among them, a shortage of physicians at Critical Access Hospitals in small towns across America and fractionated, disruptive care for patients in skilled nursing facilities.
May 19, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | We round up the week’s research and industry news for COVID-19, including the virus’s effect on diagnostics as a whole.
May 15, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | An international group of researchers has revealed that tall, slim girls may be at an increased risk of endometriosis—a painful, chronic, and inflammatory disease that impacts an estimated 5 to 10% of the female population worldwide. The findings suggest that the significant diagnostic delays associated with the disease could potentially be reduced.
May 14, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Over the past few months, necessity has been the mother of invention for thousands of primary care physicians forced to practice medicine amidst a public health crisis.
May 12, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft are working on a new type of COVID-19 diagnostic: measuring the body’s immune system for evidence of a SARS-CoV-2 infection.
May 11, 2020
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Diagnostics World| The diagnostics community continues to work hard to provide solutions and new data for diagnosing COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 infections. Accumen launches a COVID-19 test routing network, researchers in Spain launch a diagnostic network, University of Washington researchers find similarities between COVID-19 and high altitude pulmonary edema, and more. We round up the week’s research and industry news for COVID-19.
May 8, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Researchers in the lab of Sangeeta Bhatia at MIT have spent the past several years developing nanoparticle sensors that can detect cancer by interacting with enzymes that help tumor cells escape from their original locations.
May 6, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Before COVID-19, Washington was already one of the nation’s most progressive states when it came to reimbursement policies around telemedicine. But since the beginning of the pandemic, health systems like the University of Washington Medicine in Seattle have seen telemedicine usage swell 70-fold.
May 5, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | New life sciences fund closes in Europe, and big investments in Dascena’s diagnostic algorithm engine, HeartVista’s AI-assisted MRI, and much more.
May 4, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | The diagnostics community has focused its attention on COVID-19, providing new research and tools to shed light on the virus. New insights include smartphone-based testing, digital pathology software, and more.
May 1, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | The National Institutes of Health has announced a new diagnostic competition aimed at speeding innovation, development, and commercialization of COVID-19 testing technologies. NIH is urging all scientists and inventors with a rapid testing technology to participate.
Apr 30, 2020