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Big gaps seen in home medical test use by older adults

Oct. 2, 2024
People with more education and higher incomes more likely to use them, as are those who have bought a test before.
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Diagnostics

Roche launches the first test to use its TAGS technology for high throughput, simultaneous detection of 12 respiratory viruses

Sept. 25, 2024
New TAGS (Temperature-Activated Generation of Signal) technology enables up to 15 targets to be detected simultaneously in a single patient sample on the high throughput molecular...
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Latest data shows decrease in cancer diagnoses and early-stage disease continued in second year of COVID-19 pandemic

Sept. 24, 2024
Researchers add the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated existing disparities in health outcomes throughout the U.S. and stress continuous efforts to improve timely diagnosis and early...
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Accessible and Accurate Testing Solutions from Home to Lab by Sekisui Diagnostics

Sept. 20, 2024
Accessible and Accurate Testing Solutions from Home to Lab by Sekisui Diagnostics.Sponsored by:
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A new ventilator-on-a-chip model to study lung damage

Sept. 19, 2024
Device enables real-time detection of injury at cellular level.
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Assays

QIAGEN expands QIAcuity digital PCR offering with over new 100 assays via GeneGlobe platform

Sept. 19, 2024
QIAGEN adds over 100 new validated QIAcuity digital PCR assays for cancer research, inherited genetic disorders, infectious disease surveillance, and other applications.
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ECRI data analysis reveals barriers that drive diagnostic error

Sept. 13, 2024
Approximately 1 in 20 US adults experiences a diagnostic error each year, according to a 2017 observational study published in BMJ quality & safety.
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False-positive mammograms discourage women from breast cancer screening, study finds

Sept. 12, 2024
While experts are sympathetic to the stress false positives can cause, they're urging women to keep going to annual screenings.
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Hematology

Experimental blood test predicts risk for developing COPD, other severe respiratory diseases

Sept. 11, 2024
This type of blood test still needs to be studied in clinical trials before being considered for approval by the Food and Drug Administration as a screening tool to help predict...
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Atypical metabolite levels at birth may increase SIDS risk

Sept. 11, 2024
NIH-funded study suggests checking for metabolite pattern at birth could provide means to estimate SIDS risk.
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CLSI’s Focused on Preparing Labs for Change

Sept. 11, 2024
Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) CEO Barb Jones shares how the global nonprofit’s standards, training and educational offerings prepare labs to meet the...