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All parties are right to worry about the affected populations, but, more than any sophisticated
diagnostic
equipment, what is needed is credible information, presented in a digestible format, to counter Chernobyl’s destructive legacy of fear.
Stronger superconducting magnets are leading to the development of MRIs with more sophisticated
diagnostic
capabilities.
National efforts are also strengthening pharmaceutical supply chains, improving medical training, and increasing the quality of
diagnostic
networks.
Together, we have brought immunohistochemistry, a key
diagnostic
tool, to seven regional laboratories, an effort we hope lead to more timely cancer diagnoses and greatly improve the quality of care.
Moreover, we must invest in research and development of low-cost diabetes treatments and
diagnostic
tools that are suited for low-resource environments.
A funder may, for example, allow the renovation of an existing lab but not the construction of a new one; or funds may support the purchase of a
diagnostic
machine but not the training of those required to operate it.
While a DNA-based
diagnostic
test provides more accurate results, the methods currently used rely on expensive equipment like thermal cyclers and functioning cold chains.
With Bangladesh unable to pick up the slack, life-saving projects like ours will collapse; the long-term resources we have developed, from the insectarium to new
diagnostic
devices, will have to be abandoned; and the developing world’s poorest communities will suffer.
Although fewer people in developing countries live to the age at which cancer is most prevalent, inadequate nutrition and environmental exposures to viruses and toxins, combined with a paucity of
diagnostic
and treatment options, increase cancer’s incidence and lethality.
For example, a doctor’s practice will be greatly enhanced by
diagnostic
algorithms.
In addition, Africa needs help with anti-malaria medicines,
diagnostic
equipment, and training of community health workers.
At least a dozen new vaccines and drug candidates are in clinical trials, and the World Health Organization has endorsed a new
diagnostic
test called the GeneXpert.
Indeed, the Bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine is almost 100 years old, while the most widely used
diagnostic
test, microscopic detection of bacilli in sputum, was developed 130 years ago.
Likewise, the dramatic reduction in the cost of gene sequencing, from roughly $40 million per human genome in 2003 to about $5,000 today, together with a rapid increase in computational power, is boosting the speed, accuracy, and robustness of medical
diagnostic
tests.
Finally, the AIDS effort was able to expand as a result of strong advocacy and collaborations that reshaped markets for
diagnostic
and treatment programs.
In addition to providing money for efforts to develop new drugs, the fund should encourage research into
diagnostic
tools, surveillance methods, techniques to slow the development of resistance, and social and economic studies of consumer behavior.
Governments, for their part, should work closely with companies that produce
diagnostic
tools and surveillance techniques, and support useful technologies as they are developed.
The WHO recommends what it calls a “Directly Observed Therapy Strategy” (DOTS) and has set
diagnostic
thresholds of at least 70% of infectious cases, and curative thresholds of 85%.
Myriad Genetics, the sole test provider in the US – it holds a patent on the genes themselves , not just on the
diagnostic
test – did not accept her insurance, and Ceriani could not afford to pay for the test.
How can a commercial firm not only deny me the right to know my own genetic profile unless I pay their fee for the
diagnostic
test, which might be fair enough, but also to prevent any other firm from offering me a similar test unless those firms pay it a license fee?
Data provided by
diagnostic
devices could be a potent weapon in containing these outbreaks.
For example, in the Review on AMR, which I chaired, we urged developed countries to require, by 2020, that certain
diagnostic
tests be conducted before antibiotics can be prescribed.
So, too, can companies that commit to providing the necessary
diagnostic
technology at an affordable price, or pharmaceutical companies that support such technologies as a complement to new gram-negative antibiotics, which will have to be set at a higher price to discourage overuse.
Owing to their superior analytic power, machines are already providing more data upon which physicians base their
diagnostic
and treatment decisions.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a broader strategy - called DOTS - that calls for government commitment to TB control, including adequate
diagnostic
testing, continuous drug supply, and a proper system for recording, reporting, and assessing results.
Medical expertise is in some ways being replaced by computer-based
diagnostic
systems (expert systems), and much of the work that engineers once did has been replaced by computer-assisted design (CAD) systems.
But the psychiatric profession abandoned this distinction in 1980, when it published the third edition of its official
diagnostic
manual, the DSM-III.
A powerful group of research psychiatrists was dissatisfied with the definitions of depression and other common mental disorders in the earlier, psychoanalytically-influenced
diagnostic
manuals.
The
diagnostic
criteria could simply extend the current bereavement exclusion to cover conditions that develop after other losses and that are not especially severe or enduring.
But insufficient
diagnostic
rigor can result in over-diagnosis.
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