By focusing too heavily on family history, the Preventive Services Task Force is missing many opportunities for prevention, patient advocates, industry players, and researchers say.
Regional Medical Laboratory, a commercial reference lab, is using the Alinity next-gen immunoassay system in the face of growing test volumes and a shortage of trained labor.
At issue are updates to CMS' guidance instructing labs to report single HCPCS/CPT codes even in cases where a procedure produces multiple reportable results.
With deep learning software running on a supercomputer, Paige.AI is developing pathology technology that learns from large-scale digital image datasets.
In a hospital setting, 1 in 20 patients had cardiac troponin levels above the cut off for diagnosing a heart attack, including patients with no clinical signs of one.
The company said it will offer 4.5 million shares for $23 per share and intends to use the net proceeds for working capital and general corporate purposes.
The researchers showed engineered macrophages could detect tumors with sensitivity superior to that offered by endogenous protein or nucleic acid biomarkers.
The researchers showed engineered macrophages could detect tumors with sensitivity superior to that offered by endogenous protein or nucleic acid biomarkers.
BeaconLBS' platform provides physicians with access to evidence-based guidelines and pricing information that can help guide test and lab facility selection.
Clinical laboratories are increasingly adopting molecular assays as an alternative to the tedious, time-consuming stool cultures that have long been the mainstay for testing patients who might have infectious diarrhea or conditions such as Salmonella or Campylobacter. With an estimated 1.7 billion cases of childhood diarrheal disease occurring annually around the world, this is a significant advance for gastroenteritis testing.
