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  • FDA Looks To Build Diagnostics Framework, Says FDA Commissioner

    Diagnostics World | During a speech given today, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced that the agency is assisting Congress in crafting new legislation that will help shape a modern framework whereby diagnostics can be relied on as accurate and safe.

    Sep 13, 2018
  • Just Breathe: In Pursuit Of A Malaria Breathalyzer

    Diagnostics World | New research is revealing that it may be possible to diagnose malaria in an unexpected way, and the hope is that it could lead to a non-invasive, breath-based field test with advantages over existing detection methods.

    Sep 12, 2018
  • PCPs Accelerate Diagnosis, Increase Depth Of Patient Care With Handheld, Wireless Dx Ultrasound

    Diagnostics World News Brief | Healcerion has announced the newly-launched SONON 300L wireless, handheld ultrasound device, which accelerates diagnosis, gains deeper insight into patient health, and provides a richer patient experience, while increasing revenue through the addition of this service to patients.

    Sep 11, 2018
  • Machine Learning Tool Can Spot Mutations In Tumors

    IEEE Spectrum | A new method of identifying unique genetic changes in tumors could lead to more precise cancer treatments.

    Sep 6, 2018
  • The Unleashing Of AI In Real-World Diagnostics

    Diagnostics World | Despite months of speculation about a potential human backlash against artificial intelligence, AI-driven healthcare technologies are already being quietly embraced in real-world healthcare settings around the country.

    Sep 6, 2018
  • Blood-Testing Firm Theranos To Dissolve

    Wall Street Journal | Theranos, the blood-testing company accused of perpetrating Silicon Valley's biggest fraud, will formally dissolve. The move comes after prosecutors filed criminal charges against founder Elizabeth Holmes.

    Sep 5, 2018
  • AI Scramble In Healthcare Well Underway

    Diagnostics World | From point-of-care decision support tools to targeted tumor sequencing tests, artificial intelligence is causing some shakeups within the guarded healthcare industry.

    Sep 4, 2018
  • The Beauty Of Small Data In Medicine From Measuring Kids To Tumor Mutations

    CommonHealth | A big-data informatician writes about a case that marked the beginning of a long education on the value of small data – that is, the clinical impact of a small number of reliable measurements on a single patient.

    Aug 30, 2018
  • Storytelling, Superstores, Search Engines Highlight Health:Further Festival

    Diagnostics World | The first day of the Health:Further festival featured prominent figures in healthcare as they focused on listening to the patient and their story, sometimes in creative ways.

    Aug 29, 2018
  • Exact Sciences, Fuzionaire Dx, Splice Machine, And More: News From August 2018

    Diagnostics World | August featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including Exact Sciences, Fuzionaire Dx, Splice Machine, and more.

    Aug 29, 2018
  • AMP Publishes Recommended Gene Panel For Chronic Myeloid Neoplasms

    Diagnostics World Brief | This week, the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) published consensus, evidence-based recommendations to aid clinical laboratory professionals with the management of most Chronic Myeloid Neoplasms (CMNs) and development of high-throughput pan-myeloid sequencing testing panels.

    Aug 23, 2018
  • Study Finds Daxor’s BVA-100 Preferable When Assessing Patients With Heart Failure

    Diagnostics World News Brief | The publication of an investigator-initiated study from Duke University and The Mayo Clinic demonstrated that despite the widespread use of formula-derived estimates of plasma volume in heart failure patients, these methods are inaccurate compared to measured volume using the Daxor’s BVA-100 blood volume measurement diagnostic.

    Aug 22, 2018
  • Facebook Aims To Make MRI Scans 10x Faster With NYU

    Forbes | Facebook and New York University want to train an AI to reconstruct MRI images so that patients don't have to spend as long in MRI scanners.

    Aug 20, 2018