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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 Two Pore Guys, TTP, Caris, and more.
May 30, 2019
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Diagnostics World News | Conducting a trial in various countries requires quite a learning curve, from varying regulatory requirements to the simple language barrier.
May 29, 2019
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Diagnostics World News | With the reliability of bioassays being a concern, change is inevitable. A certain level of re-education is required, both for the primary care doctors and the patients themselves.
May 28, 2019
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Diagnostics World News | The validity of variant calling and discordant data has recently been called into question. Kanwal Raghav is on a mission to address this issue, designing clinical trials that can assess patient outcome based on the various cell-free DNA assays available.
May 24, 2019
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Diagnostics World | Collaborating with engineers and clinicians at various universities and institutions allows Ping Wang, Chief of Clinical Chemistry and Director of the Core Laboratory Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, to see the emerging trends in clinical care. One such trend is at the point-of-care, which Wang believes should serve as a bridge between the engineering world and the medicine world.
May 22, 2019
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Diagnostics World News Contributed Commentary | There are many barriers to commercial entry for medical technologies, including FDA approval, significant and long-term capital investment, slow market adoption, large established competitors, and market penetration hurdles resulting from group purchasing organizations (GPOs). US patents can, and often are, the lifeline to emerging medical technologies.
May 17, 2019
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Diagnostics World News | AllianceChicago is one of the oldest Health Center Controlled Networks supporting HRSA-funded health centers, making it unique in terms of size and mission. A key objective is to turn their electronic health records (EHRs) into public health assets.
May 14, 2019
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Diagnostics World News Among the many changes at the Food and Drug Administration is a recently-issued draft guidance on developing and labeling in vitro companion diagnostic devices for oncology, and there are several draft guidances impacting diagnostics on the docket for 2019. These changes are of major importance to the diagnostics community. A host of FDA staff will be on hand at the Next-Generation Dx Summit, August 20-22 in DC, sharing updates on changes at the Agency and perspectives on precision medicine in the future.
May 9, 2019
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Diagnostics World News World | A faculty-researcher at Rochester Institute of technology has developed a prototype micro device with bio-sensors that can detect the deadly Ebola virus. With this type of device, those infected can be treated earlier, and the early detection process can potentially decrease the spread of infections.
May 6, 2019
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Diagnostics World News Contributed Commentary | The world is in the grip of a panic over plastic pollution. The diagnostics sector has a responsibility to look at itself and make some tough decisions over its own use of plastic.
May 3, 2019