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Diagnostics World | December featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including Quanterix, Mobidiag, WuXi NextCODE, and more.
Jan 3, 2018
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STAT | Widespread screening for "scrutiny-dependent" cancers is misleading doctors and the public about what increases our risk of developing cancer.
Jan 2, 2018
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Diagnostics World | As we head into 2018, we at Diagnostics World would like to take a moment and reflect on the groundbreaking achievements from this past year. In that spirit, here are the top 10 stories of 2017.
Dec 27, 2017
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Diagnostics World | Foundation Medicine’s FoundationOne CDx test recently became the second NGS-based IVD to be approved and covered after overlapping review by the FDA and CMS under the Parallel Review Program, which facilitates earlier access to innovative medical technologies for Medicare beneficiaries.
Dec 21, 2017
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Diagnostics World | A look back at the conferences held by Cambridge Healthtech Institute, covering a wide range of content that focused on delivering insights on the tools, innovations, and breakthroughs that are emerging from the expanding field of diagnostics.
Dec 19, 2017
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Diagnostics World | Foldit is an online puzzle video game designed to fold the structures of selected proteins as perfectly as possible. Recently, the developers of the game have been partnering with companies and institutions, including Mars Incorporated and Thermo Fisher Scientific, to help target the issue of carcinogens in food.
Dec 13, 2017
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Diagnostics World Contributed Commentary | Lateral flow immunoassays are simple yet powerful diagnostic tools, offering user-friendly, reliable, and low-cost testing. The goal now is to make the technology increase in signal intensity to produce less ambiguous results.
Dec 12, 2017
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Diagnostics World Brief | Sarah Cannon announced that several of its affiliated programs will participate in a new study, called STRIVE, which focuses on developing a test for early breast cancer detection.
Dec 8, 2017
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Healthegy |
The power of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning looms over Medtech as a growing force that will bring change, good or bad. In this Medtech Talk Podcast, Michael Abramoff, MD, PhD, president, director and co-founder of IDx, tells how the start-up is using AI to better diagnose diabetic retinopathy. The company hopes to secure FDA approval for its IDx-DR system following the completion of clinical trials this summer.
Dec 7, 2017
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Seeking Alpha |
Quanterix has proposed terms for its $50 million U.S. IPO. The company plans to sell 3.34 million shares of common stock at $15.00 per share.
Dec 6, 2017
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Diagnostics World | November featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including Teladoc, Celmatix, ANGLE, and more.
Dec 5, 2017
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Diagnostics World Brief | Vanderbilt University Medical Center announced integration of FDNA’s Face2Gene suite of applications into the Vanderbilt Center for Undiagnosed Diseases workflow to evaluate difficult-to-diagnose patients in their role as part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Undiagnosed Disease Network (UDN).
Dec 4, 2017
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OncLive | The FDA announced that it has approved the FoundationOne CDx assay. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a simultaneous announcement saying the next-generation sequencing-based in vitro diagnostic test will be covered by insurance.
Dec 1, 2017
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Forbes | One of the most significant inefficiencies in our healthcare system is the inaccessibility to life-saving lab tests. EverlyWell is changing that narrative by making lab testing accessible and meaningful for consumers.
Nov 30, 2017