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The first test I underwent was an EKG (electrocardiogram), which has been the front line test of cardiac diagnostics for many years.
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This test is a rather major advance in heart diagnostics.
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So far big diagnostics companies have had only lukewarm interest in the test.
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In the U.S., two people Jeff Bazarian, an emergency room doctor at the University of Rochester, and Damir Janigro at the Cleveland Clinic are using the test as an investigative tool and trying to drum up interest at Roche Diagnostics to apply for FDA approval in 2011.
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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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"In the past you needed to do a culture" to test a person's virus, says Jorge Leon, former head of DNA testing at Quest Diagnostics (nyse: DGX - news - people ) and now president of molecular diagnostics consulting firm Leomics Associates.
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