Protocol combining hs-cTn measurements, modified HEART score enabled earlier discharge of suspected acute coronary syndrome cases without affecting patients' safety. An approach that combines multiple high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) tests with a modified HEART score shows promise in ...
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All adults age 18 and older should be screened for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection at least once in their lifetime, while women should be screened during every pregnancy, say new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations. These latest recommendations, published on April ...
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A prototype artificial intelligence (AI) tool showed that just three inputs had the most predictive power for discerning which patients with COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, would likely develop acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) (Comput Mater Con 2020;63:537...
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Since their discovery 3 decades ago, the role of extracellular vesicles in various diseases has been studied intensely, but how they might serve as diagnostic biomarkers remains poorly understood. Recent technological advances in proteomics and genomics have given scientists new insights into the ...
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Children diagnosed at either age 6 or younger, or 13 or older have distinct disease types, opening the possibility of better tailored treatments. New research indicates that children who are younger than age 7 when diagnosed with type 1 diabetes might have a different form or endotype of this ...
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A massive undertaking involving more than 1,300 scientists from 37 countries reported in 23 papers shows the results of analyzing 47 million genetic changes in 2,600 genomes of 38 different tumor types. The Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) presented what the researchers called “the most ...
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Updated guidelines reflect broad use of next-generation sequencing, newly identified causative genes, and evolved understanding of inheritance patterns for rare diseases with overlapping symptoms. Widespread implementation of next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods, along with identification of new ...
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Biomarkers and predictive analytics are combining forces for better diagnostics Laboratory medicine professionals know all too well that sepsis not only is a major problem but also that there’s no foolproof way to test for it. Current sepsis testing is “less than ideal,” said T. Scott Isbell, PhD, ...
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Prototype ultrasound-guided robot accurately and safely draws blood. Could robots one day replace phlebotomists in performing routine venipuncture? Researchers at Rutgers University–New Brunswick demonstrated the efficacy and safety of using a hand-held robotic device to draw blood in a small cohort ...
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How Lateral Flow Technology Re-Invented the Modern Home Pregnancy Kit Throughout recorded history, humans have endeavored to find a way to test if a woman is pregnant. For thousands of years, cultures recognized that clues could be discovered by inspecting a woman’s urine. But it has only been in ...
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