Both the use of next-generation sequencing (NGS) testing for cancer and the rate of claim denials for such testing increased between 2016 and 2021, despite implementation of a recent Medicare national ...

On average when positive, Signatera tests have a 98%-99% rate of accurately predicting the presence of cancer depending on the cancer, and the false-positive rate is less than 2% to 1% depending on ...

KYOTO—Kyoto University Hospital officials announced on April 14 that a research team conducted a clinical trial in February to transplant lab-grown pancreatic islets into a woman in her 40s who has ...

Solid Organ Transplant Segment to Dominate the Organ Transplant Diagnostics Market (by Transplant Type) The solid organ transplant segment is expected to dominate the organ transplant diagnostics ...

Major discrepancies are seen with the use of noninvasive tests compared with liver biopsy in a posttransplant setting.

A serious risk for patients who have already received a transplant is rejection of the transplant. This is a defensive reaction of the body against the foreign tissue, which can lead to a complete ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . After 37 years as a liver transplant surgeon, and after performing more than 1,000 surgeries, I have come to ...

Background: Face transplant rejection is primarily monitored through ... and sentinel biopsies. T-test was used to compare rejection grades across biopsy sites. Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) ...

NEW YORK – With the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas decision Monday vacating the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) final rule on laboratory-developed tests (LDTs), a ...

This past fall, I set out to get rejected as often as I could. A healthy fear of rejection lives inside most people, and has some of us in a chokehold. Being rejected is seen as, at worst ...

Richelle qualified for the heart transplant waiting list. Just weeks later, she had a major stroke and underwent emergency brain surgery. "By sheer chance, I was in Sydney to do a test at the ...

a patient who received a kidney transplant died from rabies. The screening process for potential organ donors in the U.S. includes questions about changes in donors’ mental states and testing for ...