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  • Disease Trajectories Aim To Reduce Medical Misdiagnoses

    Diagnostic World News | Getting a diagnosis right when diseases share symptoms or co-occur due to advanced age or unhealthy habits may require a more holistic view of the situation than can be gleaned from the typical physician-patient encounter.

    Apr 6, 2021
  • Follow the Money: Point-of-Care Dx, AI in Diagnostics, Data Management

    Diagnostics World News | Paige nets another influx of cash for AI-based pathology, and Inflammatix closes a round for its novel immune-response diagnostics portfolio. Investments in point-of-care diagnostics and liquid biopsies. And new investment funds for late-stage companies and public health.

    Apr 1, 2021
  • Variants Vs. Lineages: How We Track SARS-CoV-2 Changes

    Diagnostics World News | Color Health is adding its voice to calling for more granularity in how we name and track SARS-CoV-2 variants says Alicia Zhou, Chief Scientific Officer at Color. “There really is a difference between tracking variants versus tracking lineages,” Zhou told Diagnostics World.

    Mar 30, 2021
  • AMP Survey Shows Reimbursement Not Aligned With Molecular Test Costs

    Diagnostics World News | The Association for Molecular Pathology released survey results outlining the effort required to interpret molecular tests. As the menu of—and demand for—molecular tests grow, so does the burden of effort and cost associated with interpretation and results reporting. Reimbursement isn’t keeping up, AMP claims.

    Mar 29, 2021
  • New Framework For Developing Polygenic Risk Scores

    Diagnostics World News | Last week a research team published a 22-item framework in Nature that identifies the minimal polygenic risk score-related information that scientists should include in their studies.

    Mar 25, 2021