Following blood tests, if you are suspected to have a high cardiovascular risk, you might be asked to go for screening tests which will help in providing a detailed evaluation of heart health and ...

Roche Holding Ag (RHHBY) announced that it has entered into an agreement to develop a companion diagnostic (CDx) test for DalCor Pharmaceuticals' dalcetrapib.

With increasing cases of heart attacks among youngsters, cardiologists recommend five important tests that help to assess and ...

A groundbreaking study has successfully translated high-field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy-based lipoprotein analysis to “low cost” and easy-to-use benchtop NMR systems, enabling more ...

Tip 1: “Ideal” spectrum of disease Let's consider a clinical example that illustrates the concept of “disease spectrum” in relation to diagnostic tests. Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) is a hormone ...

Background: Anecdotal evidence suggests that the sensitivity and specificity of a diagnostic test may vary with disease prevalence. Our objective was to investigate the associations between disease ...

The research team developed a calibration model allowing benchtop NMR spectrometers (80 MHz) to accurately quantify 25 key lipoprotein markers, including total cholesterol, LDL-C, HDL-C, ApoA1, and ...