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Diagnostics World News I Blood biomarkers for detection of brain injury, MRS shows white matter changes, new multiplex SARS-CoV-2 test, diaphragmatic fibrosis associated with severe COVID-19, and high-dose anticoagulants show no clear benefits. Plus: Social isolation linked to hypertension, children mount antibodies without detection of virus, and a call for more efficient and adaptive testing measures.
Nov 20, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | In the U.K., it has become common practice to routinely screen people for colon cancer using a fecal immunochemical test (FIT) that measures the level of blood in the stool as opposed to going straight to a colonoscopy—long the gold standard in the U.S. Now, there is also convincing evidence that an FIT should be the first line of investigation for patients presenting with symptoms suspicious of colon cancer, as well.
Nov 19, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | By making colonoscopies semi-autonomous, a global team of researchers hopes to eliminate some of the key drawbacks of the procedure that have made it highly unpopular with patients.
Nov 17, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Stanford’s CRISPR-on-a-chip diagnostic, new diagnostic kit with DIY reagents, and recommendations to boost UK testing services. Plus, Oxford and Thermo Fisher join forces, Massachusetts school district plans weekly COVID-19 surveillance, and a new antibody test from EUROIMMUN.
Nov 13, 2020
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Diagnostics World NewsPhysicians could use a diagnostic device to aid clinical decision-making for patients with cancer and chronic diseases at the point of care (POC)—be that in the home, doctor’s office, or hospital emergency department.
Nov 11, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | New products, collaborations and deployments from the past two months from Mammoth Biosciences, Scopio Labs, Caris Life Sciences, Rady Children’s, Genomenon, Thirona, the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, and more.
Nov 10, 2020
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Diagnostics World News I Red marrow main target, increase in STIs amid lockdown, Dante Labs to offer Fluidigm’s saliva-based test, COVID-19 worsens tinnitus, few SNFs have fast test result turnaround time, University of Illinois creates successful test and trace program, yearlong study will determine seropositivity in frontline workers, myocarditis not as common as suspected, PerkinElmer receives EUA for pooled sample testing, and viral load determines outcomes with COVID-19 pneumonia. Plus: Twenty percent experience GI symptoms, 1.7 million New Yorkers infected, lung damage found in ‘long COVID’, unique case infectious for 70 days, and delirium early symptom in elderly.
Nov 6, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | An international team of researchers has demonstrated that an organ-on-a-chip model can accurately measure the effects of a chemotherapeutic on breast cancer tissue and simultaneously identify the unintended side effects on healthy heart tissue.
Nov 5, 2020
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Diagnostics World News | Georgia State University faculty have received a five-year, $3 million federal grant to further develop a tool that will allow researchers around the world to participate in extensive brain imaging analysis without sharing protected patient data.
Nov 4, 2020