After some targeted cancer drugs fail, Exelixis and others look to diagnostic tests to help ensure success.
It has drug and diagnostics deals with Roche Holding and is working to use diagnostic tests to improve a heart drug that Pharmacia (nyse: PHA - news - people ) is developing.
What remained to be seen was whether the breath's metabolic contents varied enough between people - and varied little enough within an individual - to be diagnostic - to act as a real and repeatable "breathprint".
Since 1996, the U.S. has required each vehicle to have an onboard diagnostic computer to monitor everything from engine to transmission sensors to look for emissions-related problems.
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Seamlessly integrated into the powertrain, the app also allows owners to send their motorcycle's diagnostic reports to a technician so that it can be quickly and easily reviewed.
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Progress on these fronts may lead to a new generation of far more efficient treatments, as well as new diagnostic tests to pinpoint patients at risk.
Once admitted, new patients take diagnostic tests to gauge their level of Internet overuse.
It is among the first new diagnostic tools to emerge from the revolution in gene hunting.
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.
It says it is using the latest world-class diagnostic tests to look for the disease in patients with symptoms.
The company is currently developing a new diagnostic assay to detect the cancer.
Even so, the team is hopeful that verbal tests might someday be used in place of invasive diagnostic procedures to identify certain illnesses.
Now Slamon pushes a new diagnostic test to spot the HER-2 gene.
But I also believe that by refining the diagnostic criteria to reflect current science, we're that much closer to getting it right.
The Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory at Porton Down, is providing diagnostic support to clinical teams to help them handle suspected anthrax cases.
Diagnostic tests to predict who will benefit have emerged for other expensive drugs, including Eli Lilly's Erbitux and Amgen's Vectibix, but not for Avastin.
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.
It is limited to capturing time of call, length, battery strength, signal strength: exactly the sort of things you would quite like diagnostic software to log.
The detachment, housed at Bagram Airfield, the sprawling military installation north of Kabul, has surgery bays and diagnostic tools to give the military's robot companions a second chance.
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The ultrasound and other technologies that identify the sex of a fetus started out as diagnostic devices to help people with sex-linked diseases, such as haemophilia, conceive healthy children.
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.
Moreover, it'll dial 911 and alert your relatives should you get in an accident, and perhaps most intriguingly, it'll send full diagnostic reports to your iPhone whenever a warning indicator lights up.
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This occurs when a doctor, fearing a lawsuit, orders a battery of costly diagnostic tests to rule out the highly improbable, even when the obvious cause of sickness or injury is staring him in the face.
That device includes a USB connector for sending diagnostic data to your PC or Mac and is designed to be used in an outdoor garden whereas Koubachi is available in both an indoor and more rugged outdoor version.
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Waller, 36, who served as a Ranger and a Chinese translator in the U.S. Army before joining Icon Advisers in Greenwood Village, Colo. in 2000, prefers gene diagnostic companies to the big pharmaceutical outfits, which he regards as being sluggish.
Waller, 36, who served as a Ranger and a Chinese translator in the U.S. Army before joining Icon Advisers in Greenwood Village, Colorado in 2000, prefers gene diagnostic companies to the big pharmaceutical outfits, which he regards as being sluggish.
The company stresses that Vscan is not designed to replace existing scanning machines, but as a rapid diagnostic aid, to triage patients, who would then be referred for more specialist examination.
Its breast cancer drug Herceptin was the first to pair a diagnostic test with a drug to determine which patients it could help.
We could create coaching programs not only for surgeons but for other doctors, too internists aiming to sharpen their diagnostic skills, cardiologists aiming to improve their heart-attack outcomes, and all of us who have to figure out ways to use our resources more efficiently.
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