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Anthem Policy Opens Reimbursement Path for Alzheimer’s Blood Tests
The insurer’s new medical-necessity criteria could improve payment prospects for laboratories offering several clinically validated biomarker assays
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Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in High-Risk Patients
An investigational KRAS-targeted vaccine was safe and generated durable T cell responses in high-risk individuals, supporting further studies of pancreatic cancer interception
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Connecticut Medical Laboratory Owner Agrees to $145,720 Medicaid Fraud Settlement
Federal and state officials alleged that Coastal Diagnostics submitted claims after gaining Medicaid enrollment through inaccurate disclosures
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Proposed Rapid Molecular Assay Illustrates Continued IVD Investment in Point-of-Care Testing
If cleared by the FDA, bioMérieux’s rapid vaginitis panel could bring a new option to physician offices
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Global Study of 1 Million Cases Targets New Evidence for Infectious Disease Testing Standards
Seegene’s Global Million Clinical Study will analyze real-world data to evaluate syndromic PCR testing approaches and generate evidence for disease-specific diagnostics
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Rapid Urine Test for Prostate Cancer Shows Promise for More Accurate Diagnosis
Researchers say a paper spray mass spectrometry method could help clinical laboratories distinguish prostate cancer from benign prostate conditions in seconds
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Mayo Clinic Study Highlights the Value of Genetic Testing in Pulmonary Fibrosis
Combining genetic testing with telomere length evaluation can reveal disease drivers and inform pulmonary fibrosis care
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Huntington’s Researcher Chose Not to Take the Genetic Test She Helped Create
Clinical labs may find themselves facing patients with similar dilemmas, such as with Alzheimer's testing
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Beyond Surgery: New Tests Could Change How Endometriosis Is Diagnosed
Saliva, sensor-based, and blood biomarker tests are advancing new approaches to earlier, less invasive endometriosis diagnosis
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Men More Likely Than Women to Receive Later-Stage Cancer Diagnoses, Study Finds
Analysis of 2.4 million US cases from the NCI-SEER database shows men are more often diagnosed at regional or metastatic stages across multiple cancer types
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AI Identifies New Rare Disease Diagnoses in Previously Unsolved Pediatric Cases
Boston Children's Hospital study highlights how AI could help laboratories and genetic specialists uncover missed diagnoses through genome reanalysis
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