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Fortune | LabCorp, one of the nation’s largest medical diagnostics companies, is investigating a security breach that could have put health records of millions of patients at risk.
Jul 19, 2018
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Diagnostics World | Podcast | Jennifer Dien Bard from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California is featured on this podcast from the Cambridge Healthtech Institute, sharing her insights into what the biggest challenges and opportunities are in implementing molecular point-of-care testing for infectious disease diagnostics, and rapid genetic and phenotypic susceptibility testing.
Jul 18, 2018
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Diagnostics World | In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles have been used for everything from shooting movie footage to keeping an eye on endangered wildlife populations. There have also been signs, though, that drones could be put to good use in healthcare by speeding along the transportation of medical samples and supplies.
Jul 16, 2018
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Diagnostics World Brief | PerkinElmer has announced a collaboration with Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, a Care New England hospital, to evaluate an innovative test method using the Vanadis NIPT system.
Jul 13, 2018
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Diagnostics World | A study recently published in Transplantation provides the results of a multi-centered trial conducted by the Mayo Clinic that purported the effectiveness of optical biopsies as safe alternatives to invasive biopsies in the case of diagnosing acute cellular rejection in lung transplant patients.
Jul 11, 2018
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Diagnostics World Brief | A researcher from LA BioMed has been awarded $688,013 in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health to improve newborn infant screening.
Jul 10, 2018
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STAT | A new study suggests not offering mammograms to women at low risk for breast cancer might reduce the harms of screening while maintaining the benefits.
Jul 5, 2018
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Diagnostics World | Podcast | Massimo Cristofanilli of Northwestern University is featured on this podcast from the Cambridge Healthtech Institute for the Next Generation Diagnostics Summit. Cristofanilli shares his perspective on the future of liquid biopsy, the complementary purposes of CTC and cfDNA technologies, and when one should expect clinical utility of liquid biopsies.
Jul 3, 2018
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Diagnostics World Brief | Today, Cloudera and MetiStream announced products to improve patient outcomes. MetiStream also announced it is introducing an end-to-end interactive analytics platform for healthcare and life science industries built on Cloudera’s machine learning platform.
Jul 2, 2018
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Diagnostics World Contributed Commentary | Continued growth and progress is needed in the hard-fought battle against HIV—and developing innovative diagnostics to create an effective first line of defense against HIV is crucial.
Jun 28, 2018
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Diagnostics World | June featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including Myriad Genetics, the Mayo Clinic, Qure.ai, and more.
Jun 27, 2018
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Diagnostics World | In just a few months, members of the diagnostic community will converge in Washington, DC for the 10th annual Next Generation Dx Summit. Here are just a few of the sessions we have highlighted as we prepare for another great summit.
Jun 26, 2018
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Diagnostics World Brief | PerkinElmer announced that its EUROIMMUN Crithidia luciliae immunofluorescence test (CLIFT) and CLIFT sensitive assays have received FDA 510(k) clearance.
Jun 22, 2018