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  • Follow the Money: Ultrasensitive ctDNA Personalized Cancer Diagnostic Test, Advanced Brain Cancer Diagnostics, More

    Diagnostics World News | Funding for chronic kidney disease and acute kidney injury genetic testing, minimal residual disease testing for solid tumors, and more.

    Nov 29, 2022
  • Netherlands Hospital to Deploy AI-Assisted Prostate Cancer Diagnostics Suite

    Diagnostics World News | University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht in the Netherlands plans to deploy Paige AI applications for routine clinical use and conduct a clinical health economics study to support the adoption and reimbursement of AI applications in pathology.

    Nov 22, 2022
  • Clinical Exposomics Emerging As A Foundation For Precision Medicine

    Diagnostics World News | High-resolution mass spectrometry methods are in principle “good enough” to put into clinics everywhere to measure low-abundance environmental chemicals and start cataloguing individual exposures. With a focus on the “exposome"—the measure of all the exposures of an individual in a lifetime and how those exposures relate to health—healthcare professionals are examining clinical exposomics as a foundation for precision medicine.

    Nov 17, 2022
  • AFib Detection With Fitbit-Based Algorithm Nearly Foolproof

    Diagnostics World News | Fitbit smartwatches and fitness trackers can be outfitted with an algorithm that can detect abnormal heart rhythms. At least that is suggested by findings of a recent study where the algorithm was found to have a high positive predictive value (98%) for atrial fibrillation.

    Nov 15, 2022
  • All Hands on Deck: Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs From a Laboratorian’s Perspective

    Diagnostics World News | After nearly three years of dealing with COVID-19, the last thing anyone wants to hear is news of another looming global health crisis. Unlike COVID-19, this one has been lurking for some time. Scientists, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and patients have a unique ability and responsibility to address the problem before it gets out of control. The looming crisis is antimicrobial resistance.

    Nov 11, 2022