HIV epidemic: Successful use of self-tests in rural Africa
Credit: University of Basel / Swiss TPH, Alain Amstutz Despite significant progress in prevention and therapy, millions of people still ...
Tag: Diagnostics
Pulmonary artery thrombosis a complication of radiation therapy
Imaging findings of in situ pulmonary artery thrombosis associated with radiation therapy are different from acute pulmonary emboli and do ...
‘Danger molecule’ associated with being obese, female and black in younger adults
Credit: Kim Ratliff, Production Coordinator, Augusta University A "danger molecule" is higher in the blood of younger black adults than ...
UCLA Health scientists pioneer faster, cheaper COVID-19 testing technology
New method pools thousands of samples, returns individual results in hoursCredit: Mufid Majnun/Unsplash The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ...
INRS researchers design the world’s fastest UV camera
An international team of researchers succeeded in recording photons in the ultraviolet range in real timeCredit: Jinyang Liang: Single?Shot Ultraviolet ...
$5.5 million NIH grant supports new tests to diagnose dementias earlier and easier
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University seek to optimize emerging methods of diagnosing two common neurodegenerative diseases -- dementia with ...
UQ tech could offer ‘faster, cheaper and mobile’ COVID-19 diagnosis
Credit: The University of Queensland Technology that helps to quickly extract and analyse genetic material could be used for cheap, ...
‘Repliclones’ fuel perplexing persistence of HIV in the blood of some patients on therapy
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, Oct. 5, 2020 - Increasingly, UPMC's chief of infectious diseases--a well-regarded expert in HIV/AIDS--is contacted by a ...
Harvard Wyss Institute’s nasal swab and toehold switch technologies licensed to Agile Biodetection
The two technologies function at different points of the diagnostic process and could help detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the ...
New tools improve care for cancers that spread to the brain
Credit: UVA Health Ambitious efforts at UVA Cancer Center to improve care delivered to patients with cancer that has spread ...
Statistical model improves analysis of skin conductance
Credit: Sandya Subramanian/MIT Picower Institute Electrodermal activity - the sweat-induced fluctuations of skin conductance made famous in TV dramatizations of ...
Promising breath-test for cancer
Potential for early warning of head, neck cancerCredit: Flinders University The global quest to use a person's breath analysis for ...
Diagnosing COVID-19 in just 30 minutes
Credit: POSTECH The year 2020 can be summarized simply by one word - COVID-19 - as it was the culprit ...
DECT in the ED: better diagnoses, less follow-up, more savings
Dual-energy CT adds value to routine interpretation of emergency department imaging studies by increasing radiologists' diagnostic confidence, leading to a ...
New COVID test doesn’t use scarce reagents, catches all but the least infectious
Addresses major testing need in developing world; also in US, where reagent supplies are again dwindlingCredit: Brian Jenkins A major ...
Caltech researcher unveils sensor that rapidly detects COVID-19 infection
Credit: Caltech One feature of the COVID-19 virus that makes it so difficult to contain is that it can be ...
Promising COVID-19 rapid test technology enters phase 1 of NIH challenge
Highly competitive NIH RADx program selects Rover Diagnostics and biomedical engineer Sam Sia to refine and validate their low-cost, ultrafast ...
Timing the life of antimatter particles may lead to better cancer treatment
Japanese team aims to detect oxygen concentration in tumors using upgraded medical imaging scanCredit: Taiga Yamaya, CC-BY Experts in Japan ...
Skoltech research makes it easier to pinpoint brain activity in EEG studies
Credit: Malovichko, M., et al/IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Skoltech researchers have proposed a fast and accurate numerical method of ...
TGen launches Vidium Animal Health
TGen subsidiary offers genomic diagnostics in support of veterinary oncologists and pet parents treating canine cancerCredit: TGen PHOENIX, Ariz. -- ...
