The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved a blood test that the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity at Fort Detrick worked on with Abbott Point of Care, which can more ...
The test, run on Abbott's portable i-STAT® Alinity® instrument, uses whole blood to help evaluate patients with a suspected mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), or concussion The test produces ...
An i-STAT traumatic brain injury-testing device sits on display at the Special Operations Medical Association annual conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, May 14, 2024. (T.T. Parish/Army) A new rapid ...
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) happens to millions of people annually. It can strike anyone, from athletes to someone cooking lunch. Most of these injuries go undiagnosed, due to the invisible nature of ...
Abbott Laboratories ABT recently received Health Canada approval for the i-STAT TBI test cartridge for use with whole blood. It is designed to help clinicians assess suspected concussion at the ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — A new blood test to help assess patients with suspected mild traumatic brain injuries or concussions is now being used right here in Central Florida. Orlando Regional Medical Center is ...
Diabetes was associated with reduced global cognition 2 weeks after traumatic brain injury (TBI) and less improvement in processing speed throughout the first year post-TBI compared to not having ...
The NIH recently awarded a three-year grant to Aric F. Logsdon, Ph.D., from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center to study how brain endothelial cells handle the stressors of ...