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  • Digital Health Technologies Gaining Ground In Clinical Trials

    Diagnostics World News | Growing interest in the use and utility of digital health technologies (DHTs) was on full display at the recent Summit for Clinical Ops Executives. While outsourcing professionals were learning from Merck’s experience in evaluating and selecting DHT suppliers, digital data specialists were getting a progress update on a study comparing sensor-based symptom measures with traditional clinician-rated assessments in patients with early, untreated Parkinson’s Disease.

    Mar 1, 2023
  • HemaChrome Wins the NIH’s RADx Tech for Maternal Health Challenge, Next-Generation Pathology Analysis Enriches Breast Cancer Grading, More

    Diagnostics World News | A remote diagnostic platform offers at-home infectious disease tests and efficiently manages lab processes and data; a secure nationwide Microsoft cloud platform provides streamlined communications and AI insights from diagnostic imaging to improve healthcare outcomes and costs; a non-small lung cancer test provides clinicians with actionable clinical insights and a better understanding of their patients’ personalized cancer dynamics; and more.

    Feb 23, 2023
  • Follow the Money: AI-Based Liquid Biopsy Platform Detects Early-Stage Cancers, Implantable Medical Device for Continuous Blood Pressure Monitoring, More

    Diagnostics World News | Funding for a diagnostic assay platform with superior sensitivity and specificity and a faster response time for detecting emerging pandemic situations, metabolomics diagnostic research, an infrared spectroscopy platform that detects the presence or absence of disease, and more.

    Feb 21, 2023
  • A Long Time Coming On Digital Endpoints

    Diagnostics World News | Efforts to use digital endpoints to modernize clinical trials have been slowed by an assortment of challenges. But the field will be getting a big push in the right direction in another few months when the first hard evidence will be published demonstrating digital endpoints can live up to their promise of delivering smaller, speedier trials.

    Feb 16, 2023
  • AI Tool Enhances Tissue Images, Aims to Improve Surgical Diagnoses

    Diagnostics World News | Researchers at Harvard University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, along with collaborators from Bogazici University in Turkey, have revealed new technology intended to help make timely decisions during surgery. Their method uses artificial intelligence to enhance the image quality of frozen tissue samples in hopes of improving diagnostic speed and accuracy.

    Feb 14, 2023
  • Best-Yet Systemic Biomarker Predictor Of Knee Osteoarthritis Progression

    Diagnostics World News | Researchers at Duke University have come up with the new “best-in-class” systemic biomarker predictive of clinically relevant knee osteoarthritis that significantly outperforms the top-rated urine test when it comes to recognizing disease progression. Development of the targeted multiple reaction monitoring proteomic panel has been a 12-year labor of love for the team.

    Feb 9, 2023