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Diagnostics World | A recent study, using technology developed by Unanimous AI, shows that a handful of doctors, connected by algorithms, achieved greater diagnostic accuracy for pneumonia than machine learning alone.
Oct 3, 2018
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STAT | The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to James Allison of MD Anderson Cancer Center and Tasuku Honjo of Kyoto University “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation,” the Nobel committee announced.
Oct 1, 2018
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Diagnostics World News Brief | Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego is launching Project Baby Bear, the first California State funded program to offer rapid whole genome sequencing for critically-ill newborns.
Sep 27, 2018
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Diagnostics World | September featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including uBiome, AliveCor, Ariel Precision Medicine, and more.
Sep 26, 2018
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Diagnostics World News Brief | Proscia has closed an $8.3 million round of Series A financing from a group of East and West Coast venture capital firms. Proceeds from the financing will be used to expand the deployment of the company’s digital pathology software and accelerate the use of AI applications to drive accuracy and efficiency in cancer diagnosis.
Sep 26, 2018
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Diagnostics World News Brief | Grants to improve and accelerate the diagnosis of rare and undiagnosed conditions were made to academic medical centers across the nation Monday. Five new clinical sites, a new metabolomics core, and increased model organism capabilities were among additions.
Sep 25, 2018
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Diagnostics World | Can an artificial intelligence platform be trained to do expert phenotypic evaluation and suggest diagnoses for rare, genetic diseases based on a photo? FDNA believes so.
Sep 25, 2018
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STAT | More and more doctors are using diagnostic decision tools in collaboration with their patients. Medical students need to learn that skill.
Sep 24, 2018
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Diagnostics World News Brief | Quadrant has been awarded a $2 million Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer grant from the National Institutes of Health for the refinement and commercialization of an epigenetic autism spectrum disorder diagnostic test.
Sep 21, 2018
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Diagnostics World News Brief | Qure.ai recently released the results of its clinical validation study confirming its qXR algorithms' accuracy, which is akin to diagnostic imaging performance, on 1.2 million x-rays.
Sep 19, 2018
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Diagnostics World Contributed Commentary | If the research community is ever going to beat tuberculosis, they will need global agreement on actions and the political will and funding to make it happen.
Sep 17, 2018
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Modern Healthcare | A group of 41 leading healthcare organizations will work together to improve the quality of medical diagnoses. The coalition, called ACT for Better Diagnosis, will focus on identifying the main causes of diagnostic errors and working toward solutions.
Sep 14, 2018
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Diagnostics World | Researchers and gamers recently collaborated, using the multiplayer online game, EVE Online, to gain a more granular understanding of patterns of proteins arranged within the body’s cells.
Sep 14, 2018