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FDA Clears Point-of-Care Test to Detect Hepatitis C Virus

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 ...

Portable CRISPR-based test detects four STIs, including syphilis, in under an hour

Researchers at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) have developed a world-first ...
News Medical

New point-of-care test revolutionizes toxoplasmosis screening

An inexpensive, accurate test that detects infections with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii can provide results within 30 minutes from a finger-prick in a doctor's office or within an hour from a small ...
Healio

FDA clears first ‘rapid diagnostic’ hepatitis C RNA test for point-of-care settings

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA granted marketing authorization for Cepheid’s Xpert HCV test and GeneXpert Xpress System, the first ...
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FDA OKs First Point-of-Care Test for Detecting Hep C in At-Risk Adults

The FDA on Thursday granted marketing authorization to the first point-of-care test for hepatitis C virus (HCV), enabling at-risk adults to be rapidly diagnosed and immediately linked to care if ...

Breathing in nanoparticles could enable a 10-minute pneumonia check at point of care

Diagnosing some diseases could be as easy as breathing into a tube. MIT engineers have developed a test to detect ...
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Novel Point-of-Care Technology Delivers Accurate HIV Results in Minutes

HIV-diagnostic technology has traditionally relied on the detection of HIV-specific antibodies that form several weeks after infection, limiting their use in early detection. A team of Northwestern ...
Healio

FDA grants clearance for fast, point-of-care STI test for women

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . This STI test from Visby Medical provides test results for chlamydia, gonorrhoeae and trichomonas in less than ...
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AXIM® Biotechnologies Receives Notice of U.S. Patent Allowance for Three Separate Patents Including Its Rapid Point of Care Neutralizing Antibody Test

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AXIM Biotechnologies, Inc. (OTCQB: AXIM) (“AXIM Biotech,” “AXIM” or “the Company”), an international healthcare diagnostic solutions development company, announced today ...