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Biden Cancer Moonshot Announces New Projects Focused on Decreasing Cancer Burden in Africa
Programs aim to improve screening tools and adherence, advance new point-of-care diagnostics, and increase access to precision medicine on the continent.
The Northwestern University spinout's COVID-19 test returns results in 15 minutes using a single-use cartridge and portable analyzer.
State-Regulated Illinois Health Plans Subject to Biomarker Test Coverage Mandate Starting 2022
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The law requires state employee, Medicaid, public school, and small employer plans to cover evidence-based biomarker testing, a change that will readily impact cancer patients.
The platform detected clinically relevant concentrations of zinc, a biomarker for a nutritional deficiency that kills 100,000 children under the age of 5 worldwide each year.
The researchers said that their deep-learning interpreter of outcomes for patients with gliomas could be more accurate and objective than pathologists.