Adding POCT to outpatient triage of ARI can reduce unnecessary antibiotics and anti-biotic-related AEs, resulting in substantial cost savings.

Reported today by Sensitive and Specific that superspreaders are super-shedders and that antigen tests can find them.

The importance of diagnostics was underscored at the recent 2023 World Health Assembly (21-30 May 2023) with the adoption of the WHO’s statement on strengthening diagnostics capacity.

The Fast MDx platform relies on automation technology from Festo for pipetting and dispensing. Included in the system are Festo handling gantries with electric axes, heat sealing from Kbiosystems and Fast MDx’s patented, ultra-fast qPCR thermal cycler, the NGX2.

A UK enterprise has developed a low-cost automated diagnostics test platform that, it says, will slash time and costs, allowing doctors to give patients personalised treatment plans rapidly. The platform makes extensive use of industrial automation technologies.