In the works: tests for kidney injury and sepsis, and a heart attack diagnostic test.
It will come with a companion diagnostic test to spot patients who have the gene alteration.
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They typically come paired with a diagnostic test to select the subset of patients most likely to benefit.
Luckily, doctors think they can tell which tumors can be treated with Gleevec by using a diagnostic test.
Until we have a precise diagnostic test for ADD, however, it will be impossible to give truly accurate figures.
Now Slamon pushes a new diagnostic test to spot the HER-2 gene.
Founded in 1976, Cincinnati-based Meridian makes, sells and distributes clinical diagnostic test kits for gastrointestinal, viral, respiratory, and parasitic infectious diseases.
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Developing the diagnostic test, a research-intensive project, ate up two costly years.
Its breast cancer drug Herceptin was the first to pair a diagnostic test with a drug to determine which patients it could help.
Jacobson says Applera should either buy a license or stop using noncoding DNA for, among other things, a diagnostic test for cystic fibrosis.
The company plans to move directly into a final-stage trial and is working on how to provide a diagnostic test for the gene.
The issue of gene patents is coming to the fore with the first diagnostic test for breast cancer genes coming on to the market.
While the differences are not consistent enough to provide a diagnostic test for ADD, they do correlate with the symptoms we see in ADD.
The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman said guidelines were not followed at a hospital in Wick during a diagnostic test to check the baby's health.
For its part, deCODE emphasizes that what it is offering is not a medical diagnostic test but merely an information service for those who are curious.
As a public company, it got too much pressure to become profitable for it to further reduce an already small patient population with a diagnostic test.
But if the FDA takes too hard a line on allowing in diagnostic test information, it could hamper the development of cancer drugs for years to come.
Tysabri boomed, too, buoyed by a diagnostic test that helps doctors identify which patients are not at risk of the brain infection and can safely take the drug.
For instance, a new diagnostic test for tuberculosis is about to become more affordable and accessible in the developing world, causing diagnostics to leapfrog more than a century.
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And the BRCA gene tests are not medicine: they are a diagnostic test that reads your DNA and tells you if you have harmful mutations in two specific genes.
For instance, Genentech and OSI might have already collected the information needed to get a diagnostic test approved, might have it for launch and might be able to price accordingly.
Researchers also are pursuing a powerful new diagnostic test for colon cancer that uses radioactive antibody fragments to search out and latch on to colon cancer cells wherever they are.
The CDC is in the final steps of refining a diagnostic test to identify H7N9 in patients, and Cox said it should be available for distribution in a matter of days.
However, vaccination of cattle against TB is currently prohibited by EU legislation, mainly because BCG vaccination of cattle can interfere with the tuberculin skin test, the main diagnostic test for TB.
We were far along in our quest to develop a diagnostic test that can help gynecologists and other physicians determine the likelihood that a woman's ovarian mass is benign or malignant.
He says he believes researchers will soon publish results in a major medical journal that could lead to a diagnostic test that may predict whether drugs such as Tarceva and Iressa will work.
Paul Ridker, the Harvard cardiologist who headed up the study, notes that all of these patients should still be taking cholesterol drugs, and that this gene alone probably won't be turned into a diagnostic test.
Dutch researchers are proposing that DNA sequencing replace older forms of genetic tests for diagnosing the cause of severe intellectual disability, the second time in a day that researchers have pushed the emerging technology as a first-choice diagnostic test for severe illness.
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The Minnesota health center says it was forced to drop a potentially valuable diagnostic test and delay publication of an article after Prometheus sued it for violating a patent so sweeping that it prohibits researchers from even thinking about the process Prometheus claims to have invented.
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