Specimen Collection Articles & Analysis
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Creative Diagnostics, a leading manufacturer and supplier of antibodies, antigens and assay kits, is pleased to announce the availability of its highly specific Anti-Adenovirus Monoclonal Antibody. This research tool offers exceptional accuracy and sensitivity for the detection of adenoviruses in various applications such as IF, ICC, and ELISA. Adenoviruses (members of the family Adenoviridae) ...
Prior to 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, the market for disposable medical supplies in Panama steadily grew at an average rate of 10% over the last decade, due to the growing population and increased public and private investment in the health sector. As a result of the pandemic, Panama has significantly increased spending on disposable medical supplies and is prepared to continue devoting ...
Visby Medical, Inc. an innovative diagnostic company, today announced its agreement with Urgent Care for Children (UC4C) to offer the company’s new Sexual Health Click Test to patients for the detection of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in female patients 14 years of age and older. The device can detect chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis, three of the most common and curable ...
Self-screen’s Chief Scientific Officer dr. Bart Hesselink talks about the clinical validation of QIAGEN’s next generation HPV screening assay on the NeuMoDxTM Molecular Systems. The NeuMoDxTM 288 and NeuMoDxTM96 Molecular Systems are fully automated continuous random-access analyzers that perform adequately in standardized, high volume cervical cancer HPV screening laboratories. The ...
As the world reels from the recent impact of COVID-19, researchers are examining ways that the past can inform current and future pandemic response. The most widely documented historic pandemic is that of the Spanish flu in 1918, and while a different set of viruses means drastically different outcomes, comparing and contrasting past and present scenarios provides helpful insight into ...
Laboratories in an increasing number of U. S. hospitals and healthcare systems are seeing significantly lower hemolysis rates in the blood specimens their staff are collecting with new technology designed for drawing blood with a single-use, sterile device that advances into the vein through a peripheral IV (PIV). The technology, PIVO (Velano Vascular, San Francisco, California), is ...
Abbott and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) have joined forces to provide HIV testing to infants in all countries working in partnership with the CHAI. A key focus of this cooperation will be sub-Saharan Africa, which the World Health Organization estimates to account for 90 percent of global HIV infections in children. Under terms of the agreement, Abbott will supply its RealTime ...