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Diagnostics World Contributed Commentary | It is no secret that Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) are a serious threat to public health. This often-deadly pathogen is the leading cause of healthcare-associated infections in the United States, representing nearly 500,000 cases annually. It is imperative that we find effective ways to curb its transmission, particularly within hospitals and other healthcare facilities, in order to improve patient outcomes and overall human health.
Mar 5, 2019
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Reader’s Digest | Melissa Bruebach spent 24 years—and more than 20 surgeries—without a diagnosis. Finally, she learned she has FKBP14-related Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Only nine people in the world have it.
Mar 1, 2019
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Diagnostics World | The 7th international Molecular Diagnostics Europe conference will soon arrive in Lisbon, Portugal. From diagnostics at the point-of-care to In Vitro diagnostic regulations, the meeting provides a nexus for diagnostic developers in academia and industry, as well as end users in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector to gain a comprehensive picture of molecular diagnostics.
Feb 28, 2019
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Diagnostics World | February featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including HudsonAlpha, SAW Dx, Entasis, and more.
Feb 27, 2019
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Diagnostics World News Brief | Technology being developed by researchers at Imperial College London and The University of Hong Kong can be used to measure hormones that affect fertility, sexual development, and menstruation more quickly and cheaply than current methods.
Feb 22, 2019
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Diagnostics World | The Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference will take place in San Francisco in March. Thought leaders throughout biotech, pharma, and academia from around the world will discuss and present the latest innovations in the fields of drug discovery, development, and diagnostics.
Feb 21, 2019
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Diagnostics World | Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) could benefit from new and improved diagnostic methods, and the arrival of a newly commercialized blood test—along with other efforts headed toward a similar end goal—could be nudging the field toward earlier detection and intervention.
Feb 20, 2019
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Diagnostics World News Brief | The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard announced the launch of the Gerstner Center for Cancer Diagnostics at the Broad Institute. The Gerstner Center aims to advance blood-based biopsies for tracking disease progression and pursue other cancer diagnostics that have the potential to benefit millions of patients worldwide.
Feb 19, 2019
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Diagnostics World News | Mayo researchers have significantly improved their predictive Recurrence of Kidney Stone (ROKS) tool by making it applicable to patients who have already had two or more attacks. The revised model, developed by a new study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, uses 13 readily available clinical characteristics of stone formers.
Feb 14, 2019
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Diagnostics World News | Diagnostics for acute infections and sepsis typically focus on “finding the bug,” but most patients with infections do not have pathogens in their bloodstream. Novel technologies coupled with machine learning are the answer for physicians when seeing a patient they suspect of having an acute infection.
Feb 13, 2019