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Coming Wave of Retirees Predicted to Trigger ‘Silver Tsunami’ That Will Drive Changes in How Hospitals Deliver Care

Clinical laboratories will need new methods for accommodating the increase in senior patients seeking rapid access to medical laboratory testing and pathology services Experts within the healthcare industry are predicting existing care delivery models will need to be...

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UK Researchers Use Proteomics to Identify Proteins That Indicate Presence of Cancer Years before Diagnosis

Study findings could lead to new clinical laboratory screening tests that determine risk for cancer New disease biomarkers generally lead to new clinical laboratory tests. Such may be the case in an investigational study conducted at the University of Oxford in the...

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South Korean Researchers Develop Clinical Laboratory Test That Diagnoses Sepsis Faster than Traditional Tests

Diagnostic test incorporates artificial intelligence and could shorten the time clinical laboratories need to determine patients’ risk for antimicrobial resistance Sepsis continues to be a major killer in hospitals worldwide. Defeating it requires early diagnosis,...

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Mayo Clinic Researchers Uses Exome Sequencing to Identify Individuals at Risk of Hereditary Cancer

Half of the people tested were unaware of their genetic risk for contracting the disease Existing clinical laboratory genetic screening guidelines may be inadequate when it comes to finding people at risk of hereditary breast-ovarian cancer syndromes and Lynch...

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World Economic Forum Publishes Updated List of 12 Breakthroughs in Fight against Cancer That Includes Innovative Clinical Laboratory Test (Part 2)

These advances in the battle against cancer could lead to new clinical laboratory screening tests and other diagnostics for early detection of the disease As Dark Daily reported in part one of this story, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has identified 12 new...

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World Economic Forum Publishes Updated List of 12 Breakthroughs in Fight against Cancer That Includes Innovative Clinical Laboratory Test (Part 1)

List also includes precision oncology, liquid biopsies, and early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer Pathologists and clinical laboratory managers will be interested to learn that in a recently updated article the World Economic Forum (WEF) identified a dozen important...

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University of Edinburgh Scientists Associate Increased Cancer Rates to Descendants from Multiple Scottish Islands

Findings could lead to new clinical laboratory cancer screening tests for BRCA1 and BRCA2 among specific population regions Descendants of a remote Scottish island are much more likely to carry a cancer-causing BRCA2 gene than the rest of the UK. That’s according to a...

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Pathology Laboratory Cuts Lead to Worker Walkout in Australia

Underfunding of clinical laboratories has led to similar worker walkouts in multiple Australasian nations Once again, cuts in government spending on pathology services has forced healthcare workers to walk off the job in Australia. This is in line with other pathology...

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Mayo Clinic Scientists Develop AI Tool That Can Determine If Gut Microbiome is Healthy

Although it is a non-specific procedure that does not identify specific health conditions, it could lead to new biomarkers that clinical laboratories could use for predictive healthcare Researchers from the Mayo Clinic recently used artificial intelligence (AI) to...

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100-Biomarker Lab Test for Alzheimer’s Disease Developed by Team at University of Pittsburgh

New clinical laboratory test could replace conventional spinal tap for diagnosing neurodegenerative disease In a proof-of-concept study, University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) scientists validated a clinical laboratory test that measures more than 100 different genetic...

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University of Colorado Boulder Scientists Demonstrate Acoustic-based Diagnostic System

Small handheld device uses sound waves to detect certain clinical laboratory biomarkers in blood samples University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed a novel technology that uses sound waves to test for biomarkers in blood samples. In addition to being...

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University of Michigan National Study Finds Nearly Half of Seniors Surveyed Purchased At-Home Medical Tests and Most Plan to Buy More

Clinical laboratory executives and pathology leaders may want to develop strategies for supporting the growing numbers of at-home screening and diagnostic test users Findings of a national poll conducted by the University of Michigan (U-M) exploring consumers’...

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CDC Enlists Five Commercial Medical Laboratories to Bolster Avian Flu Testing Capacity in the United States

Move comes following criticism from public health experts over the federal agency’s difficulties creating clinical laboratory tests for COVID-19 Amid the ongoing outbreak of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) bird flu virus, the US Centers for Disease...

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Brigham and Women’s Hospital Researchers Develop Blood Test That Enables Rapid Diagnosis of LVO Stroke in Non-hospital Settings

New technique could allow emergency responders to determine severity of LVO stroke while patient is still in the ambulance Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Massachusetts say they have developed a clinical laboratory test that can quickly determine...

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Iranian Study Shows Staggering Carcinogenic Risk in Hospital Laboratories from Occupational Exposure to Deadly Chemicals

Study found highest incidences of occupational carcinogenesis among clinical laboratory and histology technicians, followed by pathologists It has been known for years that formalin (a form of formaldehyde used as a disinfectant and preservative in the handling of...

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University of Missouri-Kansas City Study Finds Colorectal Cancer Cases Up 500% among Children

Trend will likely lead to physicians ordering more clinical laboratory screening tests for cancer among all age groups, including young patients Upticks in colorectal cancer cases among younger populations, as reported in recent news stores, is an issue that has...

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Mass General Brigham Joins with Best Buy Health to Create Country’s Largest Hospital-at-Home Program

Clinical laboratories with mobile phlebotomy programs are positioned to benefit as demand for at-home blood draws increases Hospital-at-Home (HaH) models of remote healthcare continue to pick up speed. The latest example comes from the 793-bed Mass General Brigham...

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Keio University and Broad Institute Researchers Identify 18 Bacterial Strains That Could Help Patients with Gastrointestinal Illnesses

Findings could lead to new therapies and clinical laboratory biomarkers for detecting and defeating antibiotic-resistant bacteria Once again, new research shows that human gut bacteria (microbiota) may be useful in fighting antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections....

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Genetic Tests Are Detecting Prevalence of Bird Flu Virus in US Wastewater and Allowing Officials to Track its Spread

Though PCR clinical laboratory testing is widely used, some scientists are concerned its specificity may limit the ability to identify all variants of bird flu in wastewater Wastewater testing of infectious agents appears to be here to stay. At the same time, there...

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