A U.S. appeals court has ruled that a diagnostic test licensed to Quest Diagnostics’ Athena unit that’s used to diagnose a severe neurological disorder can’t be patented, Bloomberg reports. 1. Quest ...

Recent trends of attempting to self-diagnose a medical condition based on online searches and without a professional medical expert can be harmful. Advances in technology have changed how and what ...

The FDA has launched a project with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help aid the development of breath-based diagnostics for detecting diseases more easily among underserved populations, ...

How do you navigate the benefits versus risks of diagnostic testing, such as CT scans? National Cancer Institute via Unsplash Researchers from UC San Francisco have announced a study that found ...

Otoscopy is the first step in any hearing exam. It is a clinical procedure used to visually inspect the structures of the ear, specifically the external auditory canal, tympanic membrane, and some ...

A car can be compared to the human body and may need diagnostic tests very often. For humans, when a patient consults a doctor about a symptom, the doctor runs a medical diagnostic test to ascertain ...

The changes to the longstanding power imbalance in the doctor-patient relationship in the past generation or so have largely ...

Doctors use laboratory tests, imaging studies, and endoscopic procedures to help diagnose short bowel syndrome, which affects nutrient absorption in the small intestine. Short bowel syndrome (SBS) ...

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