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Helix Diagnostics to Help More Than 1,200 Davenport University Faculty and Students Return to Campus
LANSING, Mich. — Helix Diagnostics, Michigan’s fastest growing independent laboratory is proud to be helping faculty and students return to campus this fall. Helix Diagnostics is assisting over 1,200 Davenport University faculty and students to return to campus with ongoing Covid 19 testing solutions. Helix Diagnostics has partnered with many other educational institutions as well in ...
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Cost of COVID-19 Testing and Treatment: 3 Things to Be Aware of
Nearly 9 million people in the United States have contracted the coronavirus. It seems like now, more than ever, Americans are concerned with their health and the health of their neighbors. The information regarding testing and the treatment of this virus is updated on a regular basis. This means that the previous treatments used for this virus may not be as effective as once thought. In this ...
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COVID-19 Testing & Swabs
The global pandemic, Covid-19, has had a profound impact on everyone. It has affected everything from economies worldwide, health standards and even how we interact with others. While many of us have taken precautions like social distancing and wearing masks, the virus is still spreading. According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control), the Covid-19 test, known as the rapid antigen ...
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Same-Day COVID Testing for Travelers
In light of the Delta variant, Mu variant, and breakthrough cases in vaccinated individuals, COVID-19 still presents a challenge for travelers. Requirements change quickly and vary by country or region. One of the biggest challenges is making sure travelers can be tested and receive test results quickly enough, since the longer someone has to wait for test results, the longer they have to isolate ...
By IGeneX
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Covid-19 Testing for Travel-What Your Patients Need to Know
Whether upcoming travel is for relaxation, business, or a combination of both, testing for COVID-19 is likely an integral part of the trip, especially when traveling by air. There are often very specific requirements on the type of test that will be accepted, and patients may be turning to their healthcare providers for advice. In this article, we provide links to relevant resources and a ...
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What Is the Difference Between NAAT and PCR?
While the COVID-19 pandemic has brought phrases like “PCR test” and “antigen test” into wider use, one term that hasn’t been talked about as much is “NAAT,” which is short for nucleic acid amplification test (Figure 1).1 As the media has widely reported,2–7 most rapid COVID tests are antigen-based. Antigen tests are better at assessing if a ...
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Fluxergy Expands to Scale Up COVID-19 Test Production and Prepare for Testing Beyond COVID-19
The company’s longer-term goal is to develop the platform to provide “multiple points of information from a single test,” says President Tej Patel. Fluxergy, a company that has already made headlines for earning a CE mark for its one-hour COVID-19 RT-PCR test, has expanded its U.S. headquarters after commercializing the test globally. The expansion will enable the company to ...
By Fluxergy
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Evaluation of the Talis One Covid-19 Test System for the Rapid Detection of Sars-Cov-2 and Emerging Variants
Introduction The discovery of a novel coronavirus in December 2019 in the Wuhan province of China and subsequent global spread has caused a pandemic of the scale not seen since the 1918 H1N1 pandemic. The novel coronavirus, classified as the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is highly infectious and causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a respiratory and vascular ...
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Mic and Myra Prove Flexible and Reliable in Regional Mobile Labs
Mic qpcr cycler and Myra liquid handler have been put through their paces in COVID-19-testing field trials in regional Western Australia and found to be noticeably robust, rapidly deployable and flexible. These results have been outlined in a recent paper, Development, deployment and in-field demonstration of mobile corona virus SARS-CoV-2 Nucleic acid amplification test, published by Paton, ...
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Why TEGAM Advises Against Infrared and For Contact Thermometers for COVID-19 Testing
“I would like to order a million infrared temperature sensors” is the kind of request that a temperature measurement company likes to hear. In the response to COVID-19, many people are looking for solutions to monitoring people’s temperature and we have fielded several of these inquiries. TEGAM specializes in contact temperature measurement as opposed to infrared temperature ...
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Ins & Outs of Home Sleep Testing Programs
While parceling out functions to one or more outside providers can facilitate growth, insourcing other elements of a home sleep testing workflow provides control. CleveMed CEO Hani Kayyali doesn’t think the myriad home testing solutions will go away post-pandemic either, but he does think the post-pandemic sleep testing landscape will likely look different than what preceded it. ...
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On Marc’s Mind: Martin Luther King Jr. and Service to Others
Today we celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and in honor of his memory, dedicate ourselves to the ideals of service. As Dr. King so eloquently said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” The question makes me think of our Mission. The work we do in the service of our customers and society at large has never ...
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Omicron and Covid-19 Testing: What Healthcare Providers Need to Know
As the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant (B.1.1.529) rapidly became the dominant strain in South Africa in late 2021, public health officials around the globe recognized that a new, highly transmissible form of the virus was likely emerging.1,2 However, understanding the specifics of what was different about omicron remained to be seen. Beyond higher transmissibility, questions around disease ...
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Timeline of OSHAs COVID-19 Vaccination, Testing and Face Covering ETS
Federal OSHA's Congressionally assigned scope is protection of employees from hazards created within the workplace by work processes and work materials. For every past pandemic, OSHA has made the distinction that general protective measures are under the purview of the Department of Health. This is the first time OSHA has stepped into the public health arena. To clarify the difference, ...
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Update on OSHAs COVID-19 Vaccination, Testing and Face Covering ETS
When the 6th Circuit Court lifted the stay rule by the 5th Circuit Court, OSHA's enforcement of the Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for Vaccination, Testing, and Face Coverings 1910.501 began on January 10, 2022. This created immediate and large costs to businesses, potential loss of good employees, as well as risks of fines up to $136,532 per willful violation (when you can't prove that ...
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Thoughts on OSHAs COVID-19 Vaccination, Testing and Face Covering ETS
The views and information shared in this blog are our best interpretation of empirical, non-politicized, data. Our Co-Founder, Susen Trail, holder of a Master's Degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Michigan, has been studying and researching COVID-19, and the response to COVID-19, from its inception (Feb. 2020). As a former OSHA standards enforcement officer, she is also holds ...
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Why Speed is of the Essence for Airport COVID-19 PCR Testing
As the world opens up over the coming months and years, there will be countless plane journeys to see loved ones, meet new family members and travel for work and leisure. Many of these travellers will first need to provide evidence of a negative PCR test to show they pose a minimal COVID-19 transmission risk. Time is proving of the essence for testing. With reports of multi-hour queues at ...
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Production of trimeric SARS-CoV-2 spike protein by CHO cells for serological COVID-19 testing
Soon after the genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 was determined in January 2020, there was a rush to develop rapid diagnostics for the disease. The World Health Organization issued early guidance and protocols for the use of PCR to assist in diagnosing the disease. However, drawbacks like long turnaround times and invasive sampling for PCR tests led to a concerted push to develop rapid antibody ...
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Shifting COVID-related supply shortages
2021 is bringing about a new set of challenges for the healthcare supply chain. Vaccinations are beginning to rollout, and at the same time, COVID-19 cases are increasing. Premier, Inc. has just released analysis of both historic and predictive data from its supply chain forecasting technology. In their analysis, they identify the current healthcare supply categories at risk- shortages are ...
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Shell faces more North Sea COVID-19 disruption as industry urges rules easing
Highlights Nearly 120 Shearwater workers being evacuated Shearwater revamp had been due on stream in 2020 Oil & Gas UK seeks easing of COVID-19 isolation regime Shell continues to experience COVID-19 disruption at one of its main North Sea development projects, the revamp of the Shearwater gas and condensate hub, with evacuation plans underway for 20 people tested positive and a ...
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