English example sentences with "diagnostic"

The sphygmomanometer is an important diagnostic instrument.

What's your diagnostic?

We use the latest diagnostic and treatment methods.

Hindering doctors’ efforts to quickly treat these potentially life threatening infections, like MRSA and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, is the amount of time it now takes for needed diagnostic tests to come back from the lab.

The best records of childhood cancers were from Western countries, including the United States, which kept records on almost 100 percent of sick children. Five percent or less of the data came from Africa and Asia, according to the report. In those low resource settings, Steliarova-Foucher says many cancers may go undiagnosed because of a lack of awareness and the unavailability of diagnostic equipment.

While similar devices can “see” blood-flow, Golan says his team’s invention combines features which allow doctors to focus in on single cells, helping to provide additional information such as the shape and size of each cell, as well as other crucial diagnostic statistics.

But according to a new study in the scientific journal Plos One, failure or refusal to use Rapid Diagnostic Testing can lead to misdiagnosis and a waste of expensive malaria drugs.