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Diagnostics World News | Laser diodes many times stronger than the brightness of light-emitting diodes found on the back of Apple Watches and Fitbits are enabling development of a photoacoustic skin patch capable of continuously monitoring the amount and location of hemoglobin in deep tissues. This opens the possibility of noninvasively detecting organ dysfunction, cerebral or gut hemorrhages, cancer, and COVID complications with the convenience of a wearable.
Jan 10, 2023
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Diagnostics World News | We spoke with various companies in the Diagnostics World community to gain insights and predictions for the coming year. They predicted faster and more precise diagnostic testing, enhanced whole genome screening, novel therapies that empower patients to direct their healthcare journey, and more advances in proteomics.
Jan 5, 2023
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Diagnostics World News | Since Withings founder Eric Carreel bought his company back from Nokia in 2018, the consumer electronics company has broadened its focus from nice-to-have smart health devices that support daily well-being to connected, medical-grade products whose health impacts are being scientifically validated. The latest addition to the arsenal is U-Scan, which can perform daily urinalysis with a smart device that sits inside any toilet bowl.
Jan 4, 2023
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Diagnostics World News | In a paper published late last year in Nature Communications, researchers from Penn Medicine and Intel Labs report on what they call the largest to-date global federated learning effort to develop an accurate and generalizable machine learning model for detecting glioblastoma borders. The work has important implications both clinically and as a model for future large, federated learning projects.
Jan 3, 2023
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Diagnostics World News | Diagnostics has changed in the past three years with the pandemic necessitating regulatory changes and demanding technical innovation. Some of this change has been directly COVID-related, but much was simply fueled by increased funding and attention to diagnostic problems. This year we watched the results of those changes filter through the industry and spur new thinking.
Dec 29, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | An artificial intelligence electrocardiogram algorithm designed to enable the early suspicion of cardiac amyloidosis; a first-of-its-kind wearable and wireless facial electromyography solution to assess subtle facial expressions and decipher emotional reactions; fluorescent dye singles out cancer cells under near-infrared light; and more.
Dec 27, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Funding for digitizing clinical diagnostics, multi-stage and multi-marker disease testing, tracking viral infections or molecular signatures that indicate the presence of a disease, and more.
Dec 22, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | The application of sound in diagnostic medicine was among a miscellany of topics on the agenda at the recent Acoustical Society of America meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. These included the use of machine learning to detect diarrhea and pneumonia by listening to, respectively, excretion events and coughs.
Dec 20, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Personalis and the University of California, San Francisco have announced a collaboration that will deploy a personalized liquid biopsy-based research use only assay for a study of patients with colorectal cancer.
Dec 15, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | The National Institutes of Health's All of Us Research Program has begun returning personalized health-related DNA results to more than 155,000 participants, with reports detailing whether participants have an increased risk for specific health conditions and how their body might process certain medications.
Dec 13, 2022
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Diagnostics World News | Liquid biopsies based on circulating tumor DNA or tumor cells have remarkably improved our prognostic and diagnostic capabilities in oncology. Now, exosome-based liquid biopsies bring the benefits of non-biopsy approaches to a broader range of medical areas.
Dec 9, 2022
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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