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Diagnostics World | Podcast | On this podcast from the Cambridge Healthtech Institute for the Next Generation Diagnostics Summit, Bruce Quinn from Bruce Quinn Associates discusses his latest work, challenges to implementing precision medicine, advice for overcoming them, and tips for integrating into the clinic.
Jul 31, 2018
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Diagnostics World | July featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including NuProbe, IBM, CellMax Life, and more.
Jul 30, 2018
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Diagnostics World Contributed Commentary | Microfluidics promise an entirely new medical world to the consumer, where diagnostic answers are delivered on-the-spot, in real time. However, the challenges of microfluidics in biomedical applications are numerous, particularly for measurement devices where subtle interactions can lead to inaccurate results.
Jul 26, 2018
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Diagnostics World | Podcast | On this podcast from the Cambridge Healthtech Institute for the Next Generation Diagnostics Summit, Daryl Pritchard of PMC discusses the chicken-or-the-egg conundrum of building evidence and gaining access, a study looking at the cost effectiveness of using NGS for clinical practice, challenges in the diagnostic reimbursement community, and more.
Jul 24, 2018
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Fortune | LabCorp, one of the nation’s largest medical diagnostics companies, is investigating a security breach that could have put health records of millions of patients at risk.
Jul 19, 2018
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Diagnostics World | Podcast | Jennifer Dien Bard from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California is featured on this podcast from the Cambridge Healthtech Institute, sharing her insights into what the biggest challenges and opportunities are in implementing molecular point-of-care testing for infectious disease diagnostics, and rapid genetic and phenotypic susceptibility testing.
Jul 18, 2018
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Diagnostics World | In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles have been used for everything from shooting movie footage to keeping an eye on endangered wildlife populations. There have also been signs, though, that drones could be put to good use in healthcare by speeding along the transportation of medical samples and supplies.
Jul 16, 2018
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Diagnostics World Brief | PerkinElmer has announced a collaboration with Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, a Care New England hospital, to evaluate an innovative test method using the Vanadis NIPT system.
Jul 13, 2018
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Diagnostics World | A study recently published in Transplantation provides the results of a multi-centered trial conducted by the Mayo Clinic that purported the effectiveness of optical biopsies as safe alternatives to invasive biopsies in the case of diagnosing acute cellular rejection in lung transplant patients.
Jul 11, 2018
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Diagnostics World Brief | A researcher from LA BioMed has been awarded $688,013 in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health to improve newborn infant screening.
Jul 10, 2018
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STAT | A new study suggests not offering mammograms to women at low risk for breast cancer might reduce the harms of screening while maintaining the benefits.
Jul 5, 2018
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Diagnostics World | Podcast | Massimo Cristofanilli of Northwestern University is featured on this podcast from the Cambridge Healthtech Institute for the Next Generation Diagnostics Summit. Cristofanilli shares his perspective on the future of liquid biopsy, the complementary purposes of CTC and cfDNA technologies, and when one should expect clinical utility of liquid biopsies.
Jul 3, 2018
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Diagnostics World Brief | Today, Cloudera and MetiStream announced products to improve patient outcomes. MetiStream also announced it is introducing an end-to-end interactive analytics platform for healthcare and life science industries built on Cloudera’s machine learning platform.
Jul 2, 2018