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...The prolonged legal battle and mounting competition in the genomics industry have caused investors to question the company’s strategy to diversify into cancer diagnostics....
...Teresa Graham, chief of Roche’s pharmaceutical division, said more patients suffered from diseases of the immune system than from cancer, and the current drugs did not serve them well....
...According to the NHS, 6mn people are now on the waiting list for elective care — all non-urgent medical services ranging from diagnostic tests and scans, to surgery and cancer treatment — up from 4.4mn prior...
...But many shareholders are sceptical about Illumina’s determination to hold on to Grail and want the board to negotiate a deal with EU authorities to spin off the cancer diagnostics company....
...In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic manual, which is essential for accessing health insurance for a disorder, put gambling on par with drug and alcohol addiction....
...Abcam creates products for scientific research, including antibodies and other materials that can be used as drugs or diagnostics, partnering with companies and non-profits such as Roche and Cancer Research...
...But if this drug is approved for the condition, he said oncologists should be using the diagnostic to select patients right for the medicine....
...Not enough disease was around to reach a firm conclusion, and the investigators relied on a diagnostic tool not widely available in doctors’ offices....
...The company specialises in medical imaging and laboratory diagnostics....
...Unrelated to the virus, 2021 is likely to herald advances in genome editing — an important tool in developing Covid-19 diagnostic kits and antivirus drugs, as well as new treatments for cancer and rare diseases...
...The company developed a proprietary $4,000 diagnostic test and sued rivals touting cheaper ones....
...Shares in the Californian diagnostics company were up 33.5 per cent in pre-market trading on the Nasdaq....
...The study found that oncologists could use a genetic test called Oncotype DX — made by Genomic Health, a Californian diagnostics company — to predict accurately which women would benefit from chemotherapy...
...There, a urologist uses a molecular diagnostic test to look for biomarkers indicating the presence of the disease....
...(FT, Stat) Diagnostic tests The WHO launched its first list of essential diagnostic tests, covering 58 common conditions and 55 global priority diseases such as HIV, TB and malaria....
...Liquid biopsies Mapping ‘shape-shifting’ cancers If next-generation diagnostics offer a comprehensive snapshot of a patient’s cancer, they fail to address one of the main barriers to fighting the disease...
...Cancer treatment Despite the overexcitement of some newspaper reporting, there is still plenty of good news in cancer research....
...Public health capacity — including human and animal disease surveillance — must be improved, as well as global efforts to accelerate R&D of vaccines, drugs and diagnostics....
...Fresh innovation is needed to produce better medicines and diagnostics....
...Patients can already order hereditary risk tests through a doctor, most commonly to see if they are predisposed to different types of cancer....
...Both the US, the acknowledged global leader, and China are pursuing personalised treatments for diseases such as cancer, cystic fibrosis or Alzheimer’s....
...That adds to concerns that the research market that uses the gene sequencing machines “looks increasingly saturated”, while start-ups are challenging the company in the cancer diagnostic segment, the investment...
...Illumina president Francis deSouza says better diagnostics can save lives and money. “Treating cancer at stage one is much cheaper than treating it late.”...
...An emerging cancer diagnostics area is based on the detection of epigenetic biomarkers associated with cancer....
...Roche has been regarded as the leader in personalised medicine since it launched Herceptin for women with HER 2-positive breast cancer in 1998, bolstered by its in-house diagnostics division....
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