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Global Point of Care Testing (POCT) Market to Reach USD 46.7 Billion by 2024
 The global point of care testing (POCT) market is expected to surpass USD 37 billion by 2025, driven mainly by the migration of POCT from the hospital environment to a range of medical environments, including the workplace, home, disaster care and most recently, convenience clinics. POCT now appears to be headed for a bigger role in diagnosis and monitoring patient care. Additionally, growing awareness about early disease diagnosis and prevention has stimulated the demand for POCT for detecting cancer and infectious disease in the early stages. Moreover, the rising incidence of infectious diseases and chronic conditions, such as cardiovascular diseases and diabetes in the developing countries such as India and China, is stimulating the demand for POCT services.

Radiomic Algorithm Predicts if Patient’s Cancer Can Return 10 Years After Treatment
 A new study by researchers at Penn Medicine (Philadelphia, PA, USA) has found that Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and an emerging field of medicine called radiomics — which uses algorithms to extract a large amount of features from medical images — could help to characterize the heterogeneity of cancer cells within a tumor and allow for a better understanding of the causes and progression of a person’s individual disease.