Concussion: Page 2

Blood test for detecting subconcussive injury on the horizon

By Melissa Busch

A group from Orlando Health, a not-for-profit healthcare organization in central Florida, and other U.S. institutions has made strides in developing a standard blood test that can spot concussive and subconcussive injuries, the latter of which are asymptomatic but cause brain damage over time with repeated injuries.

August 25, 2019

Inflammatory biomarker blood tests play the field in concussion

By LabPulse.com staff writers

In the prospective study, 857 male high school and college-aged players underwent blood testing at baseline for a variety of inflammatory biomarkers. IL-6 and IL-1RA were significantly elevated in a cohort of 41 players with concussion six hours after the injury, compared with preinjury and postinjury levels, and also compared with matched controls, according to senior author Timothy Meier, PhD, an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and colleagues.

July 3, 2019

BrainBox concussion test wins breakthrough status

By LabPulse.com staff writers

The company's BrainBox TBI product includes a panel test for blood protein biomarkers that could be indicators of traumatic brain injury (TBI), including glial fibrillary acidic protein, neuron-specific enolase, and neurogranin. BrainBox TBI evaluates neurological features to make an overall assessment in a single score for mild TBI, or concussion.

June 6, 2019

Abbott, DOD advance research on concussion blood test

By LabPulse.com staff writers

Abbott, the DOD, and the Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Traumatic Brain Injury (TRACK-TBI) network will evaluate the point-of-care blood test for Abbott's i-Stat Alinity system. The system performs a number of blood tests within minutes at a patient's bedside, using only two to three drops of blood. i-Stat is already in use within the military as well as at hospitals globally.

April 30, 2019