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CommonHealth | A big-data informatician writes about a case that marked the beginning of a long education on the value of small data – that is, the clinical impact of a small number of reliable measurements on a single patient.
Aug 30, 2018
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Diagnostics World | The first day of the Health:Further festival featured prominent figures in healthcare as they focused on listening to the patient and their story, sometimes in creative ways.
Aug 29, 2018
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Diagnostics World | August featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including Exact Sciences, Fuzionaire Dx, Splice Machine, and more.
Aug 29, 2018
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Diagnostics World Brief | This week, the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) published consensus, evidence-based recommendations to aid clinical laboratory professionals with the management of most Chronic Myeloid Neoplasms (CMNs) and development of high-throughput pan-myeloid sequencing testing panels.
Aug 23, 2018
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Diagnostics World News Brief | The publication of an investigator-initiated study from Duke University and The Mayo Clinic demonstrated that despite the widespread use of formula-derived estimates of plasma volume in heart failure patients, these methods are inaccurate compared to measured volume using the Daxor’s BVA-100 blood volume measurement diagnostic.
Aug 22, 2018
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Forbes | Facebook and New York University want to train an AI to reconstruct MRI images so that patients don't have to spend as long in MRI scanners.
Aug 20, 2018
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Diagnostics World News Brief | The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Accelerator Life Science Partners, a leading life science investment and management firm, have announced the launch of Magnolia Neurosciences Corporation, a company developing a new class of neuroprotective medicines, with $31 million in Series A funding.
Aug 20, 2018
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Diagnostics World Brief | A blood tests commonly used to diagnose Type 2 diabetes could identify women at risk for gestational diabetes as early as the 10th week of pregnancy according to researchers from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The results were published today in Scientific Reports.
Aug 16, 2018
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Diagnostics World Brief | Tufts Medical Center has announced an $8 million grant to study the integration of targeted genomic sequencing into neonatal diagnosis and care. The five-year grant is from the National Center For Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and will fund a national clinical trial, “Precision Medicine in the Diagnosis of Genetic Disorders in Neonates.”
Aug 15, 2018
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Diagnostics World Contributed Commentary | Norovirus is highly contagious and can be contracted through contaminated food, surfaces, and people. Coupled with the stubborn nature of the disease, there is a necessity to develop rapid detection methods which bring cases quickly under control.
Aug 14, 2018
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Forbes | A Harvard scientist thinks he's reached a new milestone: a genetic test that helps identify people who are at high risk of having a heart attack. Can he convince doctors to use it?
Aug 14, 2018
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The Boston Globe | Half of people with Alzheimer’s haven’t been diagnosed, and half those with a diagnosis don’t know. This landmark law aims to change that.
Aug 13, 2018
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Diagnostics World Contributed Commentary | The diagnostics industry often has difficulty effectively working with Key Opinion Leader (KOL) clinicians. The industry must find a way to engage and leverage KOLs without handing over the strategic control and direction of the company.
Aug 8, 2018
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Diagnostics World News | There are a number of reasons why the valuable data stored within electronic health records (EHRs) can remain buried. Several companies are working to pull information from unstructured text-based EHRs and transform it into actionable insights.
Aug 8, 2018
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Diagnostics World Brief | Diana Bianchi argues that sequencing fetal DNA could reduce the need for invasive prenatal diagnostics. Bianchi and Rossa Chiu outline their case in a review article published earlier this month in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Aug 7, 2018
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MobiHealthNews | While the benefits of clinically-validated automated screenings are easy to imagine, a recent article published in JAMA Dermatology suggests that the training methods for these algorithms may not lead to accurate diagnoses among patients with skin of color.
Aug 7, 2018