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Siemens Healthineers and Hill-Rom join to provide comprehensive solutions for primary diabetes care

Siemens Healthineers and Hill-Rom signed a co-marketing agreement to provide a suite of point-of-care diagnostic instruments that, for the first time, enable primary healthcare providers in the U.S. to bridge gaps in diabetes care and satisfy value-based quality measures in a single office visit.

From Siemens Healthineers Point of Care Diagnostics 16 May 2018

MDMA appears to help in treating PTSD patients

When lasting trauma is caused by callous acts of violence, the key to recovery can be making meaning out of meaninglessness.

16 May 2018

Study: MRI fusion biopsy outperforms standard prostate biopsy

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have found that MRI fusion biopsy--coupling MRI and ultrasound to visualize suspicious lesions in the prostate gland and targeting the biopsy to that particular area--outperformed standard prostate biopsy in patients with a prior negative prostate biopsy.

16 May 2018

Prenatal test to determine child's rhesus factor found to be reliable, but benefit is unclear

If the blood of a pregnant woman is rhesus-negative and the blood of the fetus is rhesus-positive, the woman may develop antibodies, which can cause severe harm to subsequent children in particular.

16 May 2018

Volatile biomarkers could help detect acute and asymptomatic malaria infections

Malaria is still a deadly disease in tropical and subtropical regions. Every year the disease infects more than 200 million people worldwide, claiming several hundred thousand victims.

15 May 2018

Researchers use body odor to diagnose malaria

An international team of researchers recently discovered that malaria could be diagnosed through changes in body odor.

15 May 2018

Proposed changes to most widely used diagnostic tool could adversely affect PTSD diagnosis

Fewer individuals across the globe would be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) under proposed changes to the most widely used diagnostic tool – potentially impacting clinical practice, national data reporting and epidemiological research, according to an international analytical study led by NYU School of Medicine and publishing May 14 in the journal Psychological Medicine.

15 May 2018

Study shows consumer sleep technology needs further validation

According to a position statement from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, consumer sleep technology must be cleared by the Food and Drug Administration and rigorously tested if it is intended to diagnose or treat sleep disorders.

15 May 2018

Canada's GNA challenge from Quebec could pave way for genetic discrimination

If Canada's Genetic Non-Discrimination Act is overturned by a challenge from the Province of Quebec, it will open the doors to genetic discrimination, argue authors in a commentary in CMAJ.

14 May 2018

Genomic science can help healthcare professionals to identify, treat inherited cardiac conditions

The family history questions asked during patient assessments are becoming even more important with the rise of precision medicine and genetic testing.

11 May 2018

Faster detection, treatment of anemia made possible with production of new portable diagnostic device

Faster detection and treatment for blood conditions such as anemia has come a step closer with the production of a new device in the UK for medical technology company Entia Ltd.

11 May 2018

Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance Through Industry

Antimicrobial resistance is currently one of the biggest health threats in the world. Gary Cohen and Steve Conly discuss the role of Becton, Dickinson & Co and other organizations in the private sector in combating the spread of resistance.

11 May 2018

New study shows MRSA is no more expensive to treat than MSSA

A new study from the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, with collaborators from Johns Hopkins University and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, found that infections caused by one of the most common drug resistant bacteria in the US--methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, known as MRSA--are no more expensive to treat than MSSA, the methicillin-susceptible version of the same bacteria.

10 May 2018

Poor communication between brain's visual networks may increase risk of mental illness

Individual regions of the brain have to team up to get things done. And like in any team, the key to working together is communication.

9 May 2018

Johns Hopkins researchers identify protein clumps in diseased hearts

Similar to how protein clumps build up in the brain in people with some neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, protein clumps appear to accumulate in the diseased hearts of mice and people with heart failure, according to a team led by Johns Hopkins University researchers.

9 May 2018

Diagnostic News and Research

Siemens Healthineers and Hill-Rom join to provide comprehensive solutions for primary diabetes care

MDMA appears to help in treating PTSD patients

Study: MRI fusion biopsy outperforms standard prostate biopsy

Prenatal test to determine child's rhesus factor found to be reliable, but benefit is unclear

Volatile biomarkers could help detect acute and asymptomatic malaria infections

Researchers use body odor to diagnose malaria

Proposed changes to most widely used diagnostic tool could adversely affect PTSD diagnosis

Study shows consumer sleep technology needs further validation

Canada's GNA challenge from Quebec could pave way for genetic discrimination

Genomic science can help healthcare professionals to identify, treat inherited cardiac conditions

Faster detection, treatment of anemia made possible with production of new portable diagnostic device

Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance Through Industry

New study shows MRSA is no more expensive to treat than MSSA

Poor communication between brain's visual networks may increase risk of mental illness

Johns Hopkins researchers identify protein clumps in diseased hearts

Study determines delays and obstacles to getting treatment for substance use disorders

Findings confirm analytical principle that describes mutational processes and cancer development

Bone marrow is an important reservoir for replication and transmission of malaria parasites, shows study

Study identifies new biomarker for early lung cancer diagnosis

Tradeshow Talks with Molbio Diagnostics Ltd

Improving healthcare sustainability through carbon data

A New Approach to Preventing Bladder Cancer Recurrence

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

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