Infection Control Today - Rapid Diagnostics

UTHealth Researchers Say More Rapid Test for Group B Strep is Successful

A more rapid laboratory test for pregnant women to detect potentially deadly Group B strep (GBS) has been successful at identifying GBS colonization in six and a half hours, according to the results of a study from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ...More

March 11, 2013

Posted in News

Rapid Point-of-Care Tests for Syphilis are Changing the Future of Diagnosis

Syphilis is on the rise worldwide and there is an urgent need for reliable and rapid screening, particularly for people who live in areas where access to healthcare is limited. An international research team, led by scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill ...More

February 28, 2013

Posted in News

Low-Cost Mobile Device Uses the Cloud to Speed Up Diagnostic Testing for HIV

Samuel K. Sia, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has taken his innovative lab-on-a-chip and developed a way to not only check a patient's HIV status anywhere in the world with just a finger prick, but also synchronize the results ...More

January 28, 2013

Posted in News

New Handheld Mobile Device Performs Laboratory-Quality HIV Testing

New research appearing online in Clinical Chemistry, the journal of AACC, shows that a handheld mobile device can check patients’ HIV status with just a finger prick, and synchronize the results in real time with electronic health records. This technology takes a step ...More

January 23, 2013

Posted in News

FDA Permits Marketing of First Test to Identify 11 Causes of Infectious Gastroenteritis

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces that it is allowing marketing for the first test that can simultaneously detect 11 common viral, bacterial, and parasitic causes of infectious gastroenteritis from a single patient sample. Infectious gastroenteritis is an ...More

January 15, 2013

Posted in News

Loyola Using Technology in the Fight Against Influenza

Cold, allergies, the flu or something else? Thanks to advanced technology, physicians at Loyola University Health System receive confirmation of their patient’s respiratory illness within one hour. Loyola is one of only two hospitals in lllinois to use the FDA-approved ...More

January 10, 2013

Posted in News

Rapid Test for Fungus That Caused Injection Deaths Has Been Developed

A rapid detection test for Exserhilum rostratum, the fungus primarily responsible for 39 deaths among patients injected last year with a contaminated steroid medication, has been developed by a research team led by David S. Perlin, PhD, executive director of the Public ...More

January 9, 2013

Posted in News

Strong Outlook for Hospital-based Point-of-Care Diagnostics

A new report from Reportlinker.com, "Hospital-based Point of Care Diagnostics: Products, Players and Outlook to 2017," says that clinical and patient benefits are driving the hospital-based point-of-care product sector, which achieved growth of 7.5 percent in 2011. The ...More

December 14, 2012

Posted in News

New Rapid and Point-of-Care Hepatitis C Tests Could be Global Game Changers

Timely screening and diagnosis is critical to the success of new treatments and ultimately to the survival of hepatitis C patients. A new study led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI MUHC) is the first to show that hepatitis C rapid and ...More

October 16, 2012

Posted in News

Joint Commission Offers Course on Rapid Influenza Testing in Ambulatory Settings

The Joint Commission announces the launch of Strategies for Improving Rapid Influenza Testing in Ambulatory Settings (SIRAS), a free continuing education (CE) course designed for physicians, physician assistants and registered nurses who provide care in ambulatory settings. ...More

October 15, 2012

Posted in News

ANTIMICROBIAL PRODUCTS	DISINFECTION/STERILIZA...
DISPOSABLE PRODUCTS	INFECTION CONTROL
LATEX-FREE PRODUCTS	More Options...

Rapid Diagnostics

Video Snapshot

Galleries

ICT Poll

Most Popular Articles

Buyer's Guide

Reports

Free Email Updates

featured links

First Name	Last Name
E-Mail