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Researchers develop low-cost technology to detect cancer

While many college football fans are focused on this week's marquee matchup between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Clemson Tigers, researchers from the two institutions are working together off the playing field to develop low-cost technology that can detect cancer.

28 Aug 2013

Life Technologies announces end-to-end sequencing solution for whole human exome CNV analysis

Life Technologies Corporation today announced the first end-to-end sequencing solution for exon-level copy number variation analysis, which combines the Ion Reporter CNV data analysis workflow, the Ion AmpliSeq Exome Kit and the Ion Proton® System.

27 Aug 2013

Companion diagnostics: an interview with Trevor Hawkins, SVP, Strategy, Innovation and Business Development for Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics

Companion diagnostics is critical in helping to pave the way for personalized medicine, in which the treatment is adapted and precisely tailored to the patient.

From Siemens Healthineers 27 Aug 2013

Comprehensive test of biomarkers have prognostic and diagnostic value in Parkinson's disease

Perelman School of Medicine researchers at the University of Pennsylvania report the first biomarker results reported from the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI), showing that a comprehensive test of protein biomarkers in spinal fluid have prognostic and diagnostic value in early stages of Parkinson's disease.

27 Aug 2013

Risk of kidney stones increasing among women

The risk of women developing kidney stones is rising, as is the number of cases being seen in U.S. emergency departments, while the rate of hospitalization for the disorder has remained stable.

27 Aug 2013

Engineers create biodegradable needles that penetrate skin and precisely deliver tuberculosis test

Each year, millions of people in the United States get a tuberculosis skin test to see if they have the infection that still affects one third of the world's population. But the standard diagnostic test is difficult to give, because a hypodermic needle must be inserted at a precise angle and depth in the arm to successfully check for tuberculosis.

27 Aug 2013

Thyroid ultrasound imaging may identify patients with low risk of cancer, can help postpone biopsy

Thyroid ultrasound imaging could be used to identify patients who have a low risk of cancer for whom biopsy could be postponed, according to a study by Rebecca Smith-Bindman, M.D., of the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues.

27 Aug 2013

Researchers discover additional cystic fibrosis-causing mutations

Of the over 1,900 errors already reported in the gene responsible for cystic fibrosis, it is unclear how many of them actually contribute to the inherited disease. Now a team of researchers reports significant headway in figuring out which mutations are benign and which are deleterious. In so doing, they have increased the number of known CF-causing mutations from 22 to 127, accounting for 95 percent of the variations found in patients with CF.

26 Aug 2013

BESTCILIA project aims to improve screening, treatment of Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia

Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia is mainly a lung disease: a rare, genetically heterogeneous disorder resulting from dysfunction of small hair-like organelles (cilia) that clean the upper and lower airways. It can also affect multiple organs beside the respiratory system, and may cause serious impairment and lower quality of life. Its prevalence is estimated to be about 1 in 16,000.

26 Aug 2013

Athera Transfers Annexin A5 Project To Medirista

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23 Aug 2013

AVERT System receives FDA clearance for controlled infusion of radiopaque contrast media in angiographic procedures

Osprey Medical Inc. (ASX: OSP) today announced that it has received U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance for its AVERT™ System.

23 Aug 2013

Mentors International, Co-Diagnostics HBDC to lower real-time PCR test prices in developing world

Mentors International and Co-Diagnostics HBDC signed an agreement to lower real-time PCR test prices in the developing world, starting with tuberculosis. Under the agreement, Co-Diagnostics HBDC will provide low-cost testing reagents and Mentors International will leverage its international connections to set up low-cost testing facilities.

23 Aug 2013

Tufts Health Plan provides positive coverage decision and in-network provider status to bioTheranostics

bioTheranostics, a leading provider of molecular diagnostic solutions for cancer, has received a positive coverage decision and in-network provider status from Tufts Health Plan for its CancerTYPE ID molecular cancer classifier.

23 Aug 2013

Board of Directors approve interim report for second quarter 2013

DiaGenic: The interim report for the second quarter 2013 was approved by the Board of Directors on 22 August 2013. Please find the interim report and presentation attached.

23 Aug 2013

Navidea Biopharmaceuticals signs SPA agreements with FDA for NAV5001 Phase 3 program

Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on precision diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals, today announced that it has reached agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for two special protocol assessments for the Company's pivotal Phase 3 program with NAV5001 as an aid in the differential diagnosis of Parkinsonian Syndromes from non-Parkinsonian tremor.

23 Aug 2013

Mount Sinai, Exosome Partner On Body Fluid Molecular Diagnostics

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22 Aug 2013

Genenews Axes 60% Of Staff To Boost New JV

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22 Aug 2013

Use of psychotherapy on a clear decline in US

Psychotherapy has issues. Evidence shows that some psychosocial treatments work well for common mental health problems such as anxiety and depression and that consumers often prefer them to medication.

22 Aug 2013

Clinical study to investigate effects of prenatal chromosomal abnormalities through microarray analysis

Reproductive genetics researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) are leading a multicenter prospective clinical study investigating the effects of chromosomal abnormalities (duplicative or missing material) found prenatally through microarray analysis.

22 Aug 2013

LBDA creates two LBD symptom checklists for physicians and patients

The Lewy Body Dementia Association announced today the launch of new resources for physicians and their patients. LBDA created two new LBD symptom checklists; an abbreviated checklist to assist in the reporting of LBD diagnostic symptoms and a more comprehensive checklist to help people already diagnosed with LBD or their caregivers to report new or concerning LBD symptoms as the disease progresses.

22 Aug 2013

Diagnostic News and Research

Researchers develop low-cost technology to detect cancer

Life Technologies announces end-to-end sequencing solution for whole human exome CNV analysis

Companion diagnostics: an interview with Trevor Hawkins, SVP, Strategy, Innovation and Business Development for Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics

Comprehensive test of biomarkers have prognostic and diagnostic value in Parkinson's disease

Risk of kidney stones increasing among women

Engineers create biodegradable needles that penetrate skin and precisely deliver tuberculosis test

Thyroid ultrasound imaging may identify patients with low risk of cancer, can help postpone biopsy

Researchers discover additional cystic fibrosis-causing mutations

BESTCILIA project aims to improve screening, treatment of Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia

Athera Transfers Annexin A5 Project To Medirista

AVERT System receives FDA clearance for controlled infusion of radiopaque contrast media in angiographic procedures

Mentors International, Co-Diagnostics HBDC to lower real-time PCR test prices in developing world

Tufts Health Plan provides positive coverage decision and in-network provider status to bioTheranostics

Board of Directors approve interim report for second quarter 2013

Navidea Biopharmaceuticals signs SPA agreements with FDA for NAV5001 Phase 3 program

Mount Sinai, Exosome Partner On Body Fluid Molecular Diagnostics

Genenews Axes 60% Of Staff To Boost New JV

Use of psychotherapy on a clear decline in US

Clinical study to investigate effects of prenatal chromosomal abnormalities through microarray analysis

LBDA creates two LBD symptom checklists for physicians and patients

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