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Emerging Tests
New Evidence Supports Suitability of Antigen Testing for COVID-19 Screening
July 29, 2021
Not perfect, but good enough. That is the basic theory for using rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 surveillance even though they are less accurate than molecular assays in detecting the SARS-CoV-2 … [Read more...]
Industry Trends
Investors Sink Nearly $15 Billion into Digital Health Companies in First 6 Months of 2020
July 28, 2021
The pandemic has enabled developers of Electronic Health Record (EHR), Laboratory Information Systems, ePrescription software and other digital health technologies to attract investment capital at … [Read more...]
FDA Watch
First Ever Approval of COVID-19 Blood Spot Self-Collection & Molecular Test Pooling
July 11, 2021
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to step outside its traditional comfort zone in response to COVID-19 pandemic pressures. Among the most recent agency firsts is best seen as part … [Read more...]
Reproductive Testing
Don’t Rely on Biomarker Tests to Predict Risk of Premature Births, Warns AACC
July 1, 2021
After steadily declining, the rate of spontaneous preterm births in the U.S. rose to 10 percent in 2018. Preventing premature births would save the nation over $26 billion per year. However, … [Read more...]
Diagnostic Testing and Emerging Technologies Newsletter Archive
July 1, 2021
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Emerging Test
New Studies Support Viability of Reliable COVID-19 Lateral Flow-Based Home Testing Device
June 29, 2021
As deaths and case rates fall, the focus of COVID-19 testing will continue to shift from diagnosing patients to screening the asymptomatic. This will fuel the demand for products that can deliver … [Read more...]
EMERGING TESTS
DNA Methylation Tests May Be the Next Game Changer in Low Cost, Noninvasive Cancer Testing
June 29, 2021
As liquid biopsies that analyze cell-free DNA (cfDNA) continue to gain traction in oncology, several companies are stepping up efforts to develop other noninvasive early cancer detection tests using … [Read more...]
FDA Watch
Newly Reintroduced VITAL Act Would Strip Agency of LDT Regulatory Authority
June 14, 2021
When history is written, acceleration of the longstanding effort to eliminate the authority of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs) may be … [Read more...]
Exact Sciences Scores Big as USPSTF Lowers Colorectal Cancer Screening Start Age to 45
June 14, 2021
Wouldn’t it be great if a government health task force recommended that people use the kind of test you create every year? Something like that just happened to Exact Sciences, maker of the Cologuard … [Read more...]
