New string test speeds up eosinophilic esophagitis diagnosis

It was taking too long for patients of Seemal Awan, M.D., to get a procedure that checked their esophagus for a particular kind of white blood cell called the eosinophil that is a sign of eosinophilic eesophagitis (EoE). “What happens is they have a cell that is not supposed to be in the esophagus, and...