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A diagnostic test is any kind of medical test performed to aid in the diagnosis or detection of disease. For example:
- to diagnose diseases
- to measure the progress or recovery from disease
- to confirm that a person is free from disease
Source: Wikipedia
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News Articles
Alliance Healthcare Services to Present at the Deutsche Bank 38th Annual Health Care Conference
Alliance HealthCare Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: AIQ), a leading national provider of outpatient diagnostic imaging and radiation therapy services, announced that Larry C. Buckelew, Ch...
Heska Corporation To Present At The Second Annual Marcum LLP MicroCap Conference
LOVELAND, Colo., May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Heska Corporation (NASDAQ: HSKA, "Heska" or the "Company"), a leading provider of veterinary diagnostic and specialty products, announced today that...
Autoantibodies may form basis of lupus diagnostic test
Scientists believe a new diagnostic test for lupus could be developed by looking for the presence of certain antibodies in the blood.Antibodies are proteins manufactured by the immune system to help i...
Macrocyclics to Collaborate with Roche on Molecular Innovation for Nuclear Medicine
DALLAS, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- After the successful completion of their first 2012 collaboration, Macrocyclics (an AREVA Med company) announced today a new collaborative research...
Alere to Attend Jefferies 2013 Global Healthcare Conference on June 4th
WALTHAM, Mass., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Alere Inc. (NYSE: ALR), a global leader in enabling individuals to take charge of their health at home through the merger of rapid diagnostics...
Alere to Attend Goldman Sachs 34th Annual Global Healthcare Conference on June 13th
WALTHAM, Mass., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Alere Inc. (NYSE: ALR), a global leader in enabling individuals to take charge of their health at home through the merger of rapid diagnostics...
SAINT PAUL, Minn., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MGC Diagnostics Corporation (NASDAQ: MGCD) (formerly Angeion Corporation), a global medical technology company, today scheduled a conferenc...
ERBA Diagnostics Exhibits at EuroMedlab Conference in Milan, Italy
ERBA Diagnostics, Inc. (NYSE MKT: ERB), a fully integrated in vitro diagnostics company, is pleased to announce its participation at the Euromedlab conference in Milan, Italy, May...
Cancer Genetics to Present at Marcum MicroCap Conference
Cancer Genetics, Inc. (OTCQB: CGIX) ("CGI" or the "Company"), an emerging leader in DNA-based cancer diagnostics, will present at the second annual Marcum MicroCap Conference on T...
BEDFORD, Mass., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hologic, Inc. (Hologic or the Company) (NASDAQ: HOLX), a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of premium diagnostics, medical imaging systems...
Events
The European Society for Translational Medicine (EUSTM) and the Centre de Recherche Public – Santé (CRP-Santé)
Welcome to Molecular Medicine Congress and exhibition.
Exosomes and Circulating Biomarkers Summit
Select Biosciences' Inaugural Exosomes and Circulating Biomarkers 2013 Summit Focuses on Cutting-Edge Science and Presentations from Academic and Industrial Researchers.
Welcome to the Lab-on-a-Chip World Congress and exhibition. This year's event will be held in San Diego.
Point-of-Care Diagnostics World Congress 2013
The Point-of-Care Diagnostics World Congress will take place in San Diego.
3rd Annual Oncology Biomarkers Congress 2013
Over 150 oncology focused industry delegates Over 50 presentations/roundtables/panel discussions
2nd Annual Oncology Clinical Development Congress 2013
2 day conference covering clinical development best practice and clinical trial management
th Annual Next Generation Sequencing Congress 2013
Over 400 Next Generation Sequencing, Genomics, Epigenetics, Genetics, Metagenomics experts from UK, Europe and USA
3rd World Congress on Cancer Science & Therapy
3rd world congress on Cancer Science & Therapy serves as a reunion land for scientists in the area of cancer research.
US Healthcare and Life Sciences Conference 2013
The conference will focus on the practicalities of dealing with the provisions and impacts of US healthcare reform-taking its core theme as "Transformation Beyond Reform".
Companies
Manhattan Scientifics Inc. (OTCBB: MHTX) is a pioneer in the field of nanomedicine technology transfer and commercialization. Focused on disruptive technologies for diagnostic, th...
Ambry Genetics is a CAP-accredited, CLIA-certified commercial clinical laboratory headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California. Since the company's inception in 2000, it has become a leader in provi...
From its establishment in 1977, simply as a Distributor of diagnostic products, IDS has become a globally-recognised innovator and marketeer in the IVD industry.The Company is particularly well-known...
Cancer Genetics, Inc. (CGI) is an emerging leader in the field of personalized medicine, offering products and services that enable cancer diagnostics as well as treatments that are tailored to the...
Eutropics Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Eutropics is addressing the need for improving the treatment of aggressive forms of leukemia, myeloma, lymphoma, and other cancers. The company is developing a novel diagnostic te...
Health Discovery Corporation is a molecular diagnostics company that uses advanced mathematical techniques to analyze large amounts of data to uncover patterns that might otherwis...
HIT creates, distributes and supports market-leading healthcare information technology solution. The company's flagship product, Notifi®, provides enterprise-wide communications of critical and signi...
With the advent of new technologies, in the last four years, DNA sequencing has gone through a technological revolution which has completely changed the market. While in 2007 it still cost over 10 m...
ERBA Diagnostics, Inc. (www.erbadiagnostics.com), headquartered in Miami, Florida, is a fully integrated in vitro diagnostics company that develops, manufactures and distributes i...
Johnson & Johnson is the world's most comprehensive and broadly-based manufacturer of health care products, as well as a provider of related services, for the consumer, pharmaceutical and me...
Clinical Trials
Cohort Study for Patients Using Fuzeon (Enfuvirtide)
The Radata-Fuzeon cohort is an observational cohort study to gain a better understanding of Fuzeon (Enfuvirtide) in daily clinical practice. Patients planned to take this drug in a new ant...
myoARRAY and TcLandscape Analysis for the Diagnosis of Inflammatory Myopathies
The diagnosis of the different forms of inflammatory myopathies (polymyositis, dermatomyositis, inclusion-body myositis...) remains difficult which may lead to unappropriate patient care....
The anticipation of pain and discomfort, a diagnosis, and other intrinsic unknowns make patients anxious both prior to and during a procedure. Therefore, the main goal of sedation with a...
Iodixanol in Multidetector-Row Computed Tomography-Coronary Angiography (MDCT-CA)
Image quality in coronary artery computed tomography is influenced by the heart rate variation during the examination. The purpose of this clinical trial is to investigate the change in he...
The overall goal of this study is to determine how FDG-PET can be incorporated into the assessment of the axilla in the staging and treatment of women with early stage breast cancer....
Pepsinogens as the Early Marker of H. Pylori Eradication
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) eradication increases the serum pepsinogen (PG) I/PG II ratio and the percentage change in PG I/PG II ratios was found to be a useful marker of H. pylori er...
Digital Mammography, Ultrasound, MRI, and PET Scans in Women With Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer
RATIONALE: Diagnostic procedures, such as digital mammography, ultrasound, MRI, and PET scans, may help find breast cancer and find out how far the disease has spread. PURPOSE: This phase...
Strategies for Suspected Pulmonary Embolism in Emergency Departments
Aims: 1) To evaluate the effectiveness of two interventions aimed at improving the management of patients with suspected pulmonary embolism: Written guidelines and Computer-Assisted Decisi...
Changes Following Inpatient Child-oriented Family Treatment
Children receiving IFT (intensive family therapy) were assessed for symptom profile and global functioning before admission, 3 months after discharge and 1 year after discharge. Children w...
Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Evaluating Patients With Prostate Cancer
RATIONALE: Diagnostic procedures, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), may help doctors learn the extent of prostate cancer. PURPOSE: This phase I/II trial is studying how well MRI w...
PubMed Articles
Diagnostic and prognostic significance of CA IX and suPAR in gastric cancer.
This study was intended to evaluate the prognostic and diagnostic significance of carbonic anhydrase IX (CA IX) and soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) levels in gastric cancer pa...
A sensor fabricated from the inkjet-printed deposition of polyaniline nanoparticles onto a screen-printed silver interdigitated electrode was developed for the detection of ammonia in simulated human...
Evidence for treatment of acute syndesmosis injuries in sports.
Injuries of the distal syndesmosis often accompany acute ankle sprains especially in professional team sports. While small partial syndesmosis lesions can often be missed as a consequence of impressiv...
Nerve injury after total hip replacement is a rare but severe complication. If the nerve lesion becomes evident in the early postoperative phase the lesion is often due to an incorrect implant positio...
Hernias are a common occurrence with a correspondingly huge clinical and economic impact on the healthcare system. Parastomal and trocar hernias are rare in routine urological work. The therapy of par...
Reangiography after perimesencephalic subarachnoid hemorrhage.
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to determine the value of digital subtraction angiography (DSA) for the detection of causative vascular lesions in patients with perimesencephalic subarachnoid hemorrhage...
Acute medial collateral ligament injuries of the knee : Diagnostics and therapy.
The medial collateral ligament complex (MCL) is the most commonly damaged ligamentous stabilizer of the human knee. The diagnostic algorithm comprises patient history, clinical examination and magneti...
Chronic relapsing inflammatory optic neuropathy: a systematic review of 122 cases reported.
Chronic relapsing inflammatory optic neuropathy (CRION) is an entity that was described in 2003. Early recognition of patients suffering from CRION is relevant because of the associated risk for blind...
BACKGROUND: Plasma amino acid profiles (PAAPs) vary in individual cancer patients, and it has been suggested that they may be useful for early detection of several types of cancer. We evaluated the di...
AIM: Periampullary tumors (PAT) are defined as tumors arising within 2 cm of the major duodenal papilla. Studies on yield of preoperative biopsy for nonulcerated PAT are scarce. Needle knife papillot...
Videos
Diagnostic Centre in Kolkata: Suraksha Diagnostics
Looking for Diagnostic Centre in Kolkata? www.surakshanet.com. Suraksha Diagnostic conducts a wide variety of pathological tests and provides world-class dia...
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Duty To Recontact
The ethical and/or legal obligation of a health provider or researcher to communicate with a former patient or research subject about advances in research relevant to a treatment or to a genetic or other diagnostic test provided earlier, or about proposed new uses of blood or tissue samples taken in the past for another purpose.
Neuronavigation
Intraoperative computer-assisted 3D navigation and guidance system generally used in neurosurgery for tracking surgical tools and localize them with respect to the patient's 3D anatomy. The pre-operative diagnostic scan is used as a reference and is transferred onto the operative field during surgery.
Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging
A diagnostic technique that incorporates the measurement of molecular diffusion (such as water or metabolites) for tissue assessment by MRI. The degree of molecular movement can be measured by changes of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) with time, as reflected by tissue microstructure. Diffusion MRI has been used to study BRAIN ISCHEMIA and tumor response to treatment.
Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders
Categorical classification of MENTAL DISORDERS based on criteria sets with defining features. It is produced by the American Psychiatric Association. (DSM-IV, page xxii)
Microbubbles
Very small encapsulated gas bubbles (diameters of micrometers) that can be used as CONTRAST MEDIA, and in other diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Upon exposure to sufficiently intense ultrasound, microbubbles will cavitate, rupture, disappear, release gas content, etc. Such characteristics of the microbubbles can be used to enhance diagnostic tests, dissolve blood clots, and deliver drugs or genes for therapy.
