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Diagnostics World Contributed Commentary | In an effort to increase awareness surrounding sepsis and to reduce associated hospital costs, the Center of Medicaid and Medicare Services released a new sepsis management bundle in 2016 as part of the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting program.
May 2, 2017
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Forbes |
Quest Diagnostics CIO Lidia Fonseca is a Forbes CIO Innovation Award winner on the strength of the role she has played in developing Quanum, a suite of technology and data analytics solutions offering a better understanding of how the company can provide critical insights in healthcare.
May 1, 2017
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Diagnostics World Brief | News, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community including news from Corning, Mobidiag, Illumina, and more.
Apr 27, 2017
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STAT |
Liquid biopsies were able to detect some recurrences of lung cancer up to a year before imaging scans could, in a new study.
Apr 26, 2017
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Forbes | Vinod Khosla, the billionaire Sun Microsystems founder and venture capitalist, is today leading a $24.5 million financing of a whimsically named diagnostic company, Two Pore Guys, that he says could fulfill a long-held goal: making the blood test business more like the software industry.
Apr 25, 2017
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THCB |
If I had a dollar for every entrepreneur to whom I said, "Dear God, please don't rely on a direct to consumer strategy or your a doomed"... I wouldn't have to work anymore.
Apr 24, 2017
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Diagnostics World News | “We’re taking a slightly broader view of the world than we perhaps have done in the past,” Hannes Smarason, WuXi NextCode’s newly-minted CEO, told Diagnostics World earlier this month. That’s almost a challenge for a company with outposts in Reykjavik, Iceland; Shanghai, China; and Cambridge, Massachusetts, and whose provenance traces back to DeCODE Genetics on the Icelandic side and WuXi AppTech on the Chinese side.
Apr 21, 2017
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MIT Technology Review |
The technology has been touted as a powerful diagnostic tool, but it doesn't provide answers to everyone.
Apr 21, 2017
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Diagnostics World Brief | GRAIL today announced that it has commenced its second multi-center clinical study, the STRIVE Study, to facilitate the development of GRAIL’s blood tests for early-stage cancer detection.
Apr 20, 2017
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Diagnostics World Brief | Congenica and Edico Genome today announced the companies have partnered to offer their complementary platform technologies as an all-in-one, genome data analysis solution that accelerates clinical labs’ and hospitals’ progression from DNA sequencing to diagnosis for inherited diseases which otherwise takes months or years.
Apr 20, 2017
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Diagnostics World Brief | Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and other institutions have identified specific types of bacteria that seem to be abundant in individuals with colorectal cancer.
Apr 19, 2017
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Business Insider |
As part of the settlement, Theranos has to pay $30,000, and the company won't be able to own or a clinical lab within the next two years.
Apr 18, 2017
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GeekWire |
There are hundreds of drugs that treat cancer, and every patient reacts differently to each of them. SEngine Precision Medicine, a Seattle startup spun out of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, aims to help with a new test called PARIS.
Apr 14, 2017
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Diagnostics World News | The Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE announced winners at a ceremony yesterday. Final Frontier Medical Devices and Dynamical Biomarkers Group were both named winners.
Apr 13, 2017
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Diagnostics World Brief | Nanobiosym announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an Emergency Use Authorization for the Gene-RADAR Zika Virus Test.
Apr 13, 2017
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STAT |
New draft guidelines for PSA screening aren't an endorsement for the test. Whether or not to have it is a difficult choice for men and their doctors.
Apr 11, 2017
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Diagnostics World | Emulate announced today that it has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine in order to use Emulate’s Organ’s-on-Chips technology for toxicology testing in food, dietary supplements, and cosmetic products.
Apr 11, 2017