Category: Disease States

Disease States

New BBI Solutions Novarum Feature to Support Covid-19 Certificates

BBI Solutions' patented Novarum technology transforms a smartphone into a covid-19 diagnostics test reader.

Disease States

Fluxergy Receives CE Marking for 1-Hour COVID-19 Test

Fluxergy has obtained CE marking for its one-hour COVID-19 RT-PCR test, for use by healthcare professionals as an IVD for the detection of SARS-CoV-2.

Disease States

The Battle against “Silent” Liver Disease

Early detection, monitoring, and noninvasive diagnostic testing are essential to controlling this epidemic.

Cancer

Guardant Health Raising Awareness of Importance of Complete Biomarker Testing for Advanced Colorectal Cancer

Guardant Health is joining forces with leading patient advocacy groups to expand the Clear Your View initiative to raise awareness of the important role complete biomarker testing plays in guiding initial treatment decisions for newly diagnosed advanced colorectal cancer patients.

Infectious Diseases

FDA Clears Gold Standard Diagnostics Lyme Disease Test

This new B. burgdorferi IgG/IgM VlsE-OspC EIA test, when used in conjunction with the other FDA cleared GSD Lyme EIA tests, can be used in the CDC recommended modified two-tiered testing (MTTT) algorithm.

Womens Health

Real-World Evidence Shows Cost Effectiveness of Offering NIPT to All Pregnant Women

Offering insurance coverage of non-invasive prenatal testing to all pregnant women increases utlilization at a cost of less than 3 cents per member per month.

Allergy & Autoimmune

FDA Clears Nova Lite DAPI dsDNA Crithidia luciliae Kit for Nova View

Automation using Nova View and the Nova Lite DAPI dsDNA Crithidia luciliae Kit can significantly improve laboratory turnaround time and reduce technician hands-on time.

Cardiovascular, Cerebrovascular

Saliva Testing May Help Doctors Diagnose Concussions

Doctors may soon be able to more accurately diagnose concussions by measuring the microRNA in a person's saliva, according to a new study.

Dementias & Alzheimer’s

PreADx Alzheimer’s Detection Immunoassay Proof of Concept Study Successful

Unlike plasma or serum-based assays, PreADx takes an intracellular approach and measures the clearance of beta-amyloid peptides by analyzing a patient’s monocytes.

Diabetes & Metabolic Diseases

Global Launch of Handheld Analyzer for Diabetes Care

EKF Diagnostics' Stat-Site WB measures whole blood β-ketone and glucose levels in seconds.

Kidney Disease

A Call to Action to Address Racial Inequities in Medical Tests

A perspective article published in CJASN examines how the use of race in calculating kidney function, as well as other aspects of health, can cause harm to patients.

Respiratory Disease

Owlstone Medical Introduces Breath Biopsy Panel for Respiratory Diseases

The breath biomarker panel is intended to support research to distinguish between chronic inflammatory airway diseases including asthma, COPD, and IPF.

Sepsis

Researchers Develop Sensor to Test for Sepsis

The UT Dallas researchers' sensor is a portable device that monitors a panel of five immune biomarkers using only a single drop of blood plasma, making a sepsis diagnosis available within minutes.