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  • Disease Trajectories Aim To Reduce Medical Misdiagnoses

    Diagnostic World News | Getting a diagnosis right when diseases share symptoms or co-occur due to advanced age or unhealthy habits may require a more holistic view of the situation than can be gleaned from the typical physician-patient encounter.

    Apr 6, 2021

  • Follow the Money: Point-of-Care Dx, AI in Diagnostics, Data Management

    Diagnostics World News | Paige nets another influx of cash for AI-based pathology, and Inflammatix closes a round for its novel immune-response diagnostics portfolio. Investments in point-of-care diagnostics and liquid biopsies. And new investment funds for late-stage companies and public health.

    Apr 1, 2021

  • Variants Vs. Lineages: How We Track SARS-CoV-2 Changes

    Diagnostics World News | Color Health is adding its voice to calling for more granularity in how we name and track SARS-CoV-2 variants says Alicia Zhou, Chief Scientific Officer at Color. “There really is a difference between tracking variants versus tracking lineages,” Zhou told Diagnostics World.

    Mar 30, 2021

  • AMP Survey Shows Reimbursement Not Aligned With Molecular Test Costs

    Diagnostics World News | The Association for Molecular Pathology released survey results outlining the effort required to interpret molecular tests. As the menu of—and demand for—molecular tests grow, so does the burden of effort and cost associated with interpretation and results reporting. Reimbursement isn’t keeping up, AMP claims.

    Mar 29, 2021

  • New Framework For Developing Polygenic Risk Scores

    Diagnostics World News | Last week a research team published a 22-item framework in Nature that identifies the minimal polygenic risk score-related information that scientists should include in their studies.

    Mar 25, 2021

  • Screening Algorithm Flags Patients At Risk Of Suicide

    Diagnostics World News | The suicide rate in the United States is increasing. Suicide prevention begins with risk identification, but it is impossible to screen all of the individuals within a healthcare system. Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers develop an AI tool that can screen EHRs and flag at-risk patients.

    Mar 22, 2021

  • XPRIZE Names Winners In Rapid COVID Testing Competition

    Diagnostics World News | XPRIZE has announced five winning teams in the $6M XPRIZE Rapid Covid Testing competition. Chosen by an independent panel of judges, the winning solutions are radically affordable compared to what is currently available on the market, and are comparable to commercial offerings at measuring sensitivity, specificity, and limit of detection—with a maximum turnaround time of 12 hours from sample to result.

    Mar 17, 2021

  • Promising Forecast For Doppler Radar-Based Diagnostics

    Diagnostics World News | Experts in basic medical sciences, biomedical engineering, and physics at Purdue University have collaborated to develop Doppler spectroscopy—the technique used to reveal the existence of extrasolar planetary systems—to study bacterial invasions of healthy tissue.

    Mar 16, 2021

  • Online Symptom Checkers, Test-By-Mail, Mutation Panels: COVID-19 Updates

    Diagnostics World News | Top COVID-19 news and research stories of the week: are symptom checkers helping or hurting? Could we stop the virus if everyone started weekly testing? And Thermo digs into mutations.

    Mar 12, 2021