First Endobronchial Ultrasound Procedure at New Jersey Medical Center
Hackensack Meridian Pascack Valley Medical Center successfully completed its first endobronchial ultrasound to diagnose pulmonary conditions.
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First Endobronchial Ultrasound Procedure at New Jersey Medical Center
Hackensack Meridian Pascack Valley Medical Center successfully completed its first endobronchial ultrasound to diagnose pulmonary conditions.
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Wesper Launches Multi-tier Home Sleep Testing Platform
The ecosystem integrates two diagnostic levels into one patient record to help physicians personalize sleep apnea diagnostics and monitoring.
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Rapid Sepsis Testing Could Save 36,000 US Lives Annually
A new analysis shows that early use of rapid testing for bloodstream infections reduces sepsis progression and healthcare expenses.
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Ai Could Improve Allergy Skin Test Accuracy
A new visual Ai agent aims to reduce subjectivity and improve documentation efficiency for clinicians performing skin prick testing.
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Roche Launches New Respiratory Pathogen Test in CE Markets
The new Roche diagnostic test identifies 25 viruses and bacteria to help clinicians provide...
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Test Identifies Active, Infectious Tuberculosis
On World Tuberculosis Day, March 24, a test developed by UC Davis Health could soon speed up diagnosis and help prevent its spread.
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Testing Reveals Hidden Respiratory Threats in Negative Samples
Untargeted metagenomic sequencing detected previously missed respiratory viruses in about 5% of samples that had tested negative on standard NAAT panels.
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PCD Center Adds LRS Machine for Genetic Testing
Recent funding has allowed Children’s Hospital of Chicago’s Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia Center to purchase its first Long Read Sequencing (LRS) machine to aid PCD genetic testing.
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Nova Biomedical Stat Profile Prime Plus Critical Care Analyzer
The Stat Profile Prime Plus Critical Care Analyzer integrates blood gas, electrolyte, and metabolite testing to support clinical decision-making.
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Werfen Gem Premier 7000 with IQM3 Blood Gas System
The Werfen Gem Premier 7000 with IQM3 is a point-of-care blood gas analyzer that offers hemolysis detection.
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Werfen Gem Premier 5000 Point-of-Care Blood Gas Testing
The Gem Premier 5000 uses real-time monitoring and self-contained cartridges to provide results for blood gases, electrolytes, and metabolites from a single sample.
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Siemens Healthineers RapidPoint 500e Blood Gas System
The RapidPoint 500e is a cartridge-based analyzer provides results in 60 seconds and includes enhanced data security features.
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Siemens Healthineers epoc Blood Gas Analyzer
The epoc Blood Analysis System delivers bedside testing for blood gas, electrolytes, and metabolites in less than one minute to assist with clinical decision-making.
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Michigan Instruments Lung Simulators
The Michigan Instruments adult lung simulators provide representations of pulmonary mechanics to help clinicians and engineers simulate respiratory diseases.
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Misinformation Preventing CT Lung Cancer Screenings
Confusion over false positive rates, overstated complication risks, and inflated radiation danger projections have created exaggerated fears about CT lung cancer screenings.
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Flowflex 4-in-1 RSV, Flu A/B, COVID Home Test Available
The Flowflex Plus 4-in-1 is the first single home test FDA-cleared for adults and children 6 months or older to test for RSV, influenza A/B, and COVID-19.
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Analyzing COPD Electrocardiograms via Ai May Aid Early Dx
ECG-based deep learning is a scalable, reproducible, and biologically grounded approach for COPD detection, according to a study published in eBioMedicine.
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Improving CT Radiation Dose Estimates
Investigators have developed a new method to improve radiation dose estimation in computed tomography called the size specific dose estimate slice averaged image.
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FT-IR Microspectroscopy Detects Single Lung Cancer Cell
The FT-IR microspectroscopy blood test detected a single circulating tumor cell (CTC) in one patient with lung cancer using cytospun raw blood samples.
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Eligible Women Receiving Mammograms Could Also Get Lung Screenings
Notifying women of their eligibility for low-dose CT scans for lung cancer while they are scheduling mammograms for breast cancer could increase lung screenings.
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New Guidance Issued for Coagulation Testing in Patients on Blood Thinners
The ADLM issued guidance for coagulation testing in patients using direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), including stroke, deep vein thrombosis, and pulmonary embolism.
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Testing Low-Field MRI for Infants with BPD
CHLA researchers are investigating low-field MRI to safely capture both lung structure and function for infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD).
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Combining Alpha-1 Assays May Improve Diagnosis
Combining Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AAT/AATD) assays allowed a multitiered AATD testing algorithm to improve diagnosis.
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Developing a Taste-based Flu Test
Researchers are testing an oral sensor that would release a thyme flavor when detecting the influenza virus in the mouth, alerting the user to infection prior to symptoms.
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