According to WPC, the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Technique Act is yet to be effectively implemented and has lots of gaps.

The group reports that 2-stage serologic testing remains a fairly sensitive diagnostic technique in patients who receive antibiotic therapy at time of presentation, provided an appropriately timed convalescent-phase serum sample can be obtained.

Scientists adept at making microscopic machinery have devised a diagnostic technique that may alert physicians to signs of prostate cancer more effectively and inexpensively than current tests do.

Hahn says that LIBS is a widely used diagnostic technique for analyzing surfaces and gaseous streams.

The definitive diagnostic technique is the blood salicylate level, which should be measured within 6 hours of ingestion and repeated several times over the next 24 hours.

"It is premature to accept MRI as a standard, clinically effective, diagnostic technique even for general applications to the central nervous system."

Infrared Thermography is a proven diagnostic technique recommended by the US Department of Energy for identifying areas of heat loss.

"A new diagnostic technique based on a blood test may be particularly important in HIV positive patients with TB where the usual technique of diagnosis from sputum is often unhelpful," said Mike Mandelbaum, chief executive of the charity TB Alert.

Companion diagnostic (CD) is an in-vitro diagnostic technique which provides information about therapeutic responses of patient to a specific treatment.

With 73% of the Lao population living on <US$2/day (10) and one accessible microbiologic culture laboratory in Laos, PCR is not an available local routine diagnostic technique. We were fortunate to have access to an overseas diagnostic facility, which allowed confirmation of the clinical diagnosis before the patient received a prolonged course of a drug with adverse effects and drug interactions.

Kim developed a diagnostic technique that accomplishes both of these goals.

The company focuses on a diagnostic technique that is mainly used in clinical oncology, cardiology and neurology.

That's 100 times more sensitive than the most discriminating diagnostic technique available today, which relies solely on cultured bone marrow cells (SN: 6/2/90, p.341).

What ophthalmologists need, Weinreb explains, is an "accurate, reproducible and sensitive diagnostic technique that would allow both earlier diagnosis and earlier detection of progression.