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  • Research Holds Promise Of Leading To Ways To Stop Breast Cancer From Spreading

    Forbes | Research that uncovered a mechanism that allows breast cancer cells to enter the bloodstream opens the door to early identification of women who are at increased risk of metastasizing breast cancer and provides a target for further research aimed at keeping breast cancer from spreading throughout the body.

    Sep 16, 2016

  • RNA Biosignatures: Overcoming Hurdles In Diagnosing Childhood Bacterial Infections

    Diagnostics World News | New studies discuss techniques that could help distinguish bacterial and viral infections.

    Sep 14, 2016

  • Study Compares Survival Outcomes Of Lung Cancer Staging Strategies

    News-Medical | In a study appearing in the September 13 issue of JAMA, Jouke T. Annema, M.D., Ph.D., of the Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, and colleagues examined five-year survival after endosonography vs mediastinoscopy for mediastinal nodal staging of lung cancer.

    Sep 13, 2016

  • As Zika Spreads In Asia Study Shows Virus May Also Infect Adult Brain Cells

    Forbes | A new study shows that the Zika virus can infect regions of brain cells associated with learning and memory in adult mice -- suggesting potential implications for adult brains in humans.

    Sep 12, 2016

  • A Map To Help Cancer Doctors Find Their Way

    NPR | A computer program can map cancer progression in much the same way historical explorers drew maps of the Earth without satellite imaging. Small bits of data can be pieced together to form a picture.

    Sep 12, 2016

  • Penn. Researchers Prefer Liquid Biopsy To Tissue Biopsy In Lung Cancer

    News-Medical | For patients with advanced lung cancer, a non-invasive liquid biopsy may be a more effective and suitable alternative to the gold standard tissue biopsy to detect clinically relevant mutations and help guide their course of treatment, suggests a new study published this week in the journal Clinical Cancer Research from researchers at the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

    Sep 9, 2016

  • Diagnostics In DC: FDA Guidances, NGS Assays And Clinical Workflows At The Next Generation Diagnostics Summit

    Diagnostics World | Diagnostics is exploding thanks to next generation technologies. Advances in NGS assays, point-of-care diagnostics, companion diagnostics, DNA forensics, struggles with interpretation and incidental findings, and the regulatory structure surrounding all of it were the topics of three days of conversations in late August at the Next Generation Diagnostics Summit in Washington, D.C.

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    Sep 8, 2016

  • FDA Warns Against Widely Used Ovarian Cancer Screening Test

    STAT | The FDA warned women and their doctors that current screening tests for ovarian cancer are unreliable, and could lead to false diagnoses.

    Sep 8, 2016

  • Genomic Medicine And Managing The Shift To The Clinic

    Diagnostics World | At a genomic medicine gathering in Huntsville, Alabama, last month, researchers and physicians called a new paradigm of genomic medicine and sequencing shifts from research use into the clinic. 

    Sep 6, 2016

  • Redefining Remission: Proteins and Genes Working Together

    Diagnostics World | Contributed Commentary  Many times genes alone do not provide the information necessary to get a full picture of what’s currently happening in the body. With this in mind, scientists are becoming increasingly interested in the study of protein biomarkers.  

    Aug 30, 2016

  • Theranos Halts New Zika Test After FDA Inspection

    WSJ | Theranos, led by Elizabeth Holmes, withdraws request for approval of blood test for Zika virus after FDA found problems with patient safeguards.

    Aug 31, 2016

  • News and Notes in Diagnostics August 2016

    Diagnostics World Briefs  News from Invitae, Repositive, Princeton University, and more. Sophia Genetics , global leader in Data-Driven Medicine, and Devyser , pioneer in diagnostic kits for complex DNA testing, announce today the signing of a new partnership to simplify the adoption of Next-Generation DNA Sequenc

    Aug 30, 2016

  • The Steve Jobs Of Drawing Blood

    Forbes | The concept from a company called Velano Vascular repurposes the IV most hospital patients already have in their arms so blood can be drawn without having their veins repeatedly stuck by needles.

    Aug 29, 2016

  • FDA Clears First-Of-Their Kind Tests To Help Identify Concussions

    Forbes | Currently, there's no easy test to diagnose a concussion. The FDA just approved two computerized tests to help doctors spot these injuries.

    Aug 25, 2016

  • BioNano, Berry Plan New Structural Variation Instrument, Assays for Clinical Use

    Diagnostics World | BioNano Genomics has announced that its Irys platform for detecting genomic structural variations will serve as the foundation for a new system and assays developed with Berry Genomics for which Berry will seek Chinese Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) regulatory approval for a number of clinical indications in China.

    Aug 19, 2016

  • Genetic Tests for a Heart Disorder Mistakenly Find Blacks at Risk

    The New York Times | A study finds that errors were made because earlier research linking genetic traits to illness did not include enough blacks.

    Aug 18, 2016

  • Proove Releases Predictive Pharmacogenetic Tests for Addiction, Fibromyalgia, Thromboembolism

    Diagnostics World | Proove Biosciences has added three new tests to its line of genetic profiles that help physicians make better decisions about how to treat illnesses. The new profiles for addiction, fibromyalgia, and thromboembolism are designed to identify specific genetic markers and other factors that are unique to each patient and influence that patient's response to different treatments. Physicians in private, university, and public healthcare centers can use this information to make more informed decisions regarding treatment on an individual basis.

    Aug 15, 2016

  • Speeding Diagnosis for Newborns with Liver Disease

    Diagnostics World | Doctors at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital report a way to detect biliary atresia and other neonatal liver diseases in newborns with a blood test.

    Aug 10, 2016

  • Big Driver of Medicare Spending Doctors Doing More Tests in Their Offices

    WSJ | Government Medicare payouts rise when new medical devices allow doctors to test patients in their own offices, the latest data show.

    Aug 10, 2016

  • Quest Diagnostics Introduces Digital Cognitive Assessment Tool

    News Medical | The new CogniSense tool from Quest Diagnostics, available as an iPad app, provides standard tests for assessing patients with dementia, in a format that can be tracked over time and integrated into electronic medical records.

    Aug 9, 2016