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  • COVID-19’s Impact On Diagnostics, And Other News

    Diagnostics World News | We round up the week’s research and industry news for COVID-19, including the virus’s effect on diagnostics as a whole.

    May 15, 2020
  • Endometriosis Research Shows Potential for Reducing Diagnostic Delays

    Diagnostics World News | An international group of researchers has revealed that tall, slim girls may be at an increased risk of endometriosis—a painful, chronic, and inflammatory disease that impacts an estimated 5 to 10% of the female population worldwide. The findings suggest that the significant diagnostic delays associated with the disease could potentially be reduced.

    May 14, 2020
  • Long View On The Role Of Telehealth In Primary Care

    Diagnostics World News | Over the past few months, necessity has been the mother of invention for thousands of primary care physicians forced to practice medicine amidst a public health crisis.

    May 12, 2020
  • Adaptive Biotechnologies, Microsoft Exploring Immune-Based COVID-19 Diagnostic Test

    Diagnostics World News | Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft are working on a new type of COVID-19 diagnostic: measuring the body’s immune system for evidence of a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

    May 11, 2020
  • Diagnostic Networks And Updates For COVID-19

    Diagnostics World| The diagnostics community continues to work hard to provide solutions and new data for diagnosing COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 infections. Accumen launches a COVID-19 test routing network, researchers in Spain launch a diagnostic network, University of Washington researchers find similarities between COVID-19 and high altitude pulmonary edema, and more. We round up the week’s research and industry news for COVID-19.

    May 8, 2020
  • New Sensors For Detecting Lung Cancer Powered By Machine Learning

    Diagnostics World News | Researchers in the lab of Sangeeta Bhatia at MIT have spent the past several years developing nanoparticle sensors that can detect cancer by interacting with enzymes that help tumor cells escape from their original locations.

    May 6, 2020
  • UW Medicine: Pandemic Could Give Long-Term Boost To Telemedicine

    Diagnostics World News | Before COVID-19, Washington was already one of the nation’s most progressive states when it came to reimbursement policies around telemedicine. But since the beginning of the pandemic, health systems like the University of Washington Medicine in Seattle have seen telemedicine usage swell 70-fold.

    May 5, 2020
  • Follow the Money: AI-Assisted MRI, Diagnostic Algorithms, More

    Diagnostics World News | New life sciences fund closes in Europe, and big investments in Dascena’s diagnostic algorithm engine, HeartVista’s AI-assisted MRI, and much more.

    May 4, 2020
  • Global Diagnostics Community Sheds Light On COVID-19

    Diagnostics World News | The diagnostics community has focused its attention on COVID-19, providing new research and tools to shed light on the virus. New insights include smartphone-based testing, digital pathology software, and more.

    May 1, 2020
  • NIH Launches RADx: Billion Dollar Funding Initiative To Expand COVID-19 Tests By Fall

    Diagnostics World News | The National Institutes of Health has announced a new diagnostic competition aimed at speeding innovation, development, and commercialization of COVID-19 testing technologies. NIH is urging all scientists and inventors with a rapid testing technology to participate.

    Apr 30, 2020
  • COVID-19, Roquette, PGDx, And More: News From April 2020

    Diagnostics World News | April featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including Roquette, PGDx, as well as recent attempts to combat COVID-19.

    Apr 29, 2020