Four tests for diagnosing UTIs that produce results in "under an hour" and can be carried out by a healthcare professional outside a conventional laboratory in a primary or community care setting show ...

Credit: Cepheid. The Xpert HCV test delivers results in about an hour. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted marketing authorization to Xpert ® HCV, a point-of-care hepatitis C virus (HCV ...

Patients in dental settings had a comparable uptake of point-of-care HIV tests when compared with non-specialized health settings. An estimated 36 million people live with HIV worldwide with ...

PORTLAND, Ore. & MUMBAI, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hemex Health announced a major enhancement to its Gazelle platform that allows its Hb Variant test to detect beta thalassemia disease and trait in ...

Infectious diseases have been a major threat to human health throughout history, causing significant economic damage worldwide. In modern medicine, quickly and accurately identifying the germs causing ...

Roche has obtained U.S. government green lights allowing its point-of-care testing system to be used to screen for multiple sexually transmitted infections from a single sample. The company’s cobas ...

Unlike tests sent to a central lab, point-of-care tests provide rapid results that can immediately influence treatment decisions. “It remains one of the best testing sectors for proving the idea that ...

If you've ever taken an at-home diagnostic test for COVID-19, you can partially credit the technology to the Johns Hopkins University Center for Innovative Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases (CIDID).

There is an unmet critical need for reliable point-of-care testing, particularly in low-resource settings including low-income communities and remote locations, to advance global healthcare equity.

With a flexible, no-equipment-needed platform, ChBE researchers are creating a new way to test for disease at home or anywhere medical resources are limited. The team's modular cell-free protein ...