A new study appearing in The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine (JALM) has found that a simplified version of the standard screening method for identifying heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT)—a dangerous side effect ...
Jan 6, 2025
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Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have created a portable device that can detect colorectal and prostate cancer more cheaply and quickly than prevailing methods. The team believes the device may be especially ...
Oct 24, 2024
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Go to the doctor to provide a blood sample, and you're typically faced with a needle and syringe, and hours or even days of waiting to get results back from a lab. CU Boulder researchers hope to change that with a new handheld, ...
Oct 16, 2024
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As inflammation is the body's natural immune response to disease or infection, it increases blood flow in the body and helps the body's cells to defend themselves against viruses, infections or cell damage. Fast diagnostics ...
Aug 26, 2024
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A newly defined threshold for the concentration of the cytokine CXCL13 may improve the diagnosis of neuroborreliosis. The clinical diagnosis of this disease, which is caused by infections from tick bites, is still difficult ...
Jul 10, 2024
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Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers in women, with approximately 660,000 new cases and 350,000 deaths worldwide in 2022 alone. Almost all cases are linked to high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) infections. ...
Jul 8, 2024
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A research group in Japan has established a microfluidic control technology that can be applied to small blood testing devices and consequently developed a novel integrated immunoassay device. This microfluidic control technology ...
May 28, 2024
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A simple, safe and accurate test that identifies women with womb cancer from a sample taken from the vagina has been developed by clinician scientists from The University of Manchester.
Mar 21, 2024
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Rice University researchers have developed a rapid, accurate test for diagnosing malaria that is significantly faster and easier to use than traditional tests. The advancement has the potential to improve patient outcomes, ...
Feb 29, 2024
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Researchers have studied the association of proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) with soluble P-selectin (sP-selectin) and their values in predicting major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) at one-year ...
Jan 8, 2024
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