A Closer Lab-Patient Connection
Patient access to data from the clinical lab is increasing. What does this mean for those generating it?
Patient access to data from the clinical lab is increasing. What does this mean for those generating it?
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The Xpert HCV Viral Load test (Cepheid, Sunnyvale, Calif.) for hepatitis C virus (HCV) has good accuracy for detecting viral RNA using whole blood from a finger stick…
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The United States is falling behind national goals to identify patients unaware of their positive HIV status and link them to care…
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Smartphone push-alert notification of troponin laboratory results allow physicians to discharge patients seen in the…
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New research suggests that potential shifts might occur in diabetes-related testing, including potential increased use of…
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Since 2013 when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) effectively stopped direct-to-consumer personal genomic testing, there has been pent up demand among healthy individuals for…
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Also at the ACMG meeting, researchers from Illumina (San Diego, Calif.) reported on a pilot project conducted at the San Diego Blood Bank where…