A South Jersey man died after Penn doctors failed to diagnose him in time. A blood test could have saved his life

Each night, Louis-Hunter Kean spiked a fever as high as 104.5. He would sweat through bedsheets and shiver uncontrollably. By morning, his fever would ease but his body still ached; even his jaw hurt.

Faster blood test could support safer decision-making in drug-related emergencies

New research from King's College London suggests that a rapid blood testing method could deliver reliable results far more ...
Deccan Chronicle

AIG Launches India’s First H. pylori Test

Hyderabad: AIG Hospitals has introduced PYtest, India’s first clinically validated breath test for detecting Helicobacter pylori infection, developed by Nobel Laureate Barry Marshall.
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Iterative A/B Testing for Social Impact: Rigorous, Rapid, Regular

Many nonprofits in low- and middle-income countries face a critical mismatch: urgent social problems demand rapid program iteration, yet organizations often wait years for externally-produced ...
Original paper

Concordance of the rapid urease test and the histopathology report in detecting Helicobacter pylori infection in a bariatric population. A retrospective cohort study

2nd Department of General Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland Department of Endoscopy, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland Internal Diseases and ...
New Atlas

15-minute hep-C test makes same-day treatment possible

Hepatitis C is a tiny virus with a significant impact. It's a small RNA virus that spreads through the blood and infects the liver. Even though today's medicines can cure it, hepatitis C remains a ...
AZFamily

New rapid test could revolutionize valley fever diagnosis in Arizona

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Thousands of people are diagnosed with valley fever every year in Arizona, and sometimes you can be misdiagnosed because the symptoms are so similar to other illnesses like the ...
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Mayo Clinic laboratory developing Valley fever rapid test

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A Valley laboratory is developing a rapid antibody test to help with a common desert illness. The Mayo Clinic’s Microbiology Laboratory, in partnership with Arizona State ...
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Abbott’s rapid blood-based concussion test is off to the races

Abbott’s rapid, blood-based test for concussions is making its sporting debut through the motorcycle racing series MotoAmerica, marking the first professional organization to deploy the screener at ...
Medscape

Rapid STI Testing Reduces Treatment Errors in Emergency Care

A 90-minute nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) in the emergency department (ED) showed significant reductions in both undertreatment and overtreatment rates among women with Chlamydia trachomatis ...
Today

You can no longer order free COVID-19 tests from the government. Here’s where to go instead

Americans can no longer order free at-home COVID-19 tests from the government through COVIDtests.gov. The suspension of the program, which has distributed over 1.8 billion COVID tests across the ...