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Largest study of its kind finds common lab tests aren't reliable for diagnosing long COVID

A new study found that most routine laboratory tests are not reliable for diagnosing long COVID, also known as Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC). The study, published in Annals of ...
Nature

Personalized lab test models to quantify disease potentials in healthy individuals

Standardized lab tests are central for patient evaluation, differential diagnosis and treatment. Interpretation of these data is nevertheless lacking quantitative and personalized metrics. Here we ...
The Conversation

How do blood tests work? Medical laboratory scientists explain the pathway from blood draw to diagnosis and treatment

Medical laboratory testing is the heartbeat of medicine. It provides critical data for physicians to diagnose and treat disease, dating back thousands of years. Unfortunately, laboratory medicine as a ...
Nature

Personalizing routine lab tests with machine learning

Machine learning applied to electronic medical records can be used to create personalized lab-test reference ranges and to quantify disease risk, which will pave the way for precision medicine in ...
The Conversation

Blood tests are currently one‑size‑fits‑all − machine learning can pinpoint what’s truly ‘normal’ for each patient

If you’ve ever had a doctor order a blood test for you, chances are that they ran a complete blood count, or CBC. One of the most common blood tests in the world, CBC tests are run billions of times ...