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  • Gamifying Vision: How Mobile Gaming Is Tracking Vision Degradation in Patients

    Diagnostics World News | Tilak Healthcare aims to combine video games with medical expertise so that the same vision monitoring tools that are reliable and useful for doctors will be playful and fun for users. If Tilak can achieve that, the company tools will be “sticky” enough to have a longstanding impact on the healthcare process for patients.

    Jun 15, 2021
  • AI Algorithms Match Pathologists In Quantifying Tumor Cellularity

    Diagnostics World News | Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms were recently found to perform on par with pathologists when it came to quantifying tumor cellularity, an increasingly common measure of patient response to neoadjuvant therapy for breast cancer. That was one of the key findings of the Breast Pathology Quantitative Biomarkers (BreastPathQ) Challenge.

    Jun 9, 2021
  • NIH, CDC Public Health Initiative Examines Impact of At-Home COVID-19 Testing

    Diagnostics World News | A new public health initiative is looking to determine whether widespread access to rapid at-home antigen tests can help reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Dubbed “Say Yes! COVID Test,” the initiative launched by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is zeroing in on Pitt County, N.C., and Chattanooga/Hamilton County, Tenn.

    Jun 7, 2021