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The NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Network Expands

Diagnostics World News Brief | Grants to improve and accelerate the diagnosis of rare and undiagnosed conditions were made to academic medical centers across the nation Monday. Five new clinical sites, a new metabolomics core, and increased model organism capabilities were among additions.

Sep 25, 2018
What Facial Analysis Can Do For Rare Disease Diagnosis

Diagnostics World | Can an artificial intelligence platform be trained to do expert phenotypic evaluation and suggest diagnoses for rare, genetic diseases based on a photo? FDNA believes so.

Sep 25, 2018
Teach Medical Students To Use Diagnostic Tools With Their Patients

STAT | More and more doctors are using diagnostic decision tools in collaboration with their patients. Medical students need to learn that skill.

Sep 24, 2018
Quadrant Awarded $2 Million NIH Grant For Novel Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnostic Assay

Diagnostics World News Brief | Quadrant has been awarded a $2 million Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer grant from the National Institutes of Health for the refinement and commercialization of an epigenetic autism spectrum disorder diagnostic test.

Sep 21, 2018
Study Finds Qure.ai’s qXR Algorithm Can ID Abnormal Chest X-rays With Unprecedented Accuracy

Diagnostics World News Brief | Qure.ai recently released the results of its clinical validation study confirming its qXR algorithms' accuracy, which is akin to diagnostic imaging performance, on 1.2 million x-rays.

Sep 19, 2018
Call To World Leaders: Enable Us To Implement Our Plan To Eradicate TB

Diagnostics World Contributed Commentary | If the research community is ever going to beat tuberculosis, they will need global agreement on actions and the political will and funding to make it happen.

Sep 17, 2018
Geisinger, Intermountain, Others Form Coalition To Address Diagnostic Errors

Modern Healthcare | A group of 41 leading healthcare organizations will work together to improve the quality of medical diagnoses. The coalition, called ACT for Better Diagnosis, will focus on identifying the main causes of diagnostic errors and working toward solutions.

Sep 14, 2018
Gaming Community Improve Cell, Protein Mapping In The Human Body With AI

Diagnostics World | Researchers and gamers recently collaborated, using the multiplayer online game, EVE Online, to gain a more granular understanding of patterns of proteins arranged within the body’s cells.

Sep 14, 2018
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