Point-of-Care Testing Articles
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Diabetomics Lumella - New Point-of-Care Blood Test Kit for Early Detection of Preeclampsia
Abstract Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by chronic inflammation of synovial joints. Anticitrullinated protein autoantibodies are detected by the CCP test in early disease and predict the development of erosive disease as well as extraarticular manifestations. We recently reported that many RA patients have anti-citrullinated albumin (ACA) ...
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Rapid Point-of-Care Test for Determination of C-Peptide Levels
Abstract C-peptide is co-secreted with insulin and is not subject to hepatic clearance and thus reflects functional β-cell mass. Assessment of C-peptide levels can identify individuals at risk for or with type 1 diabetes with residual β-cell function in whom β cell-sparing interventions can be evaluated, and can aid in distinguishing type 2 diabetes from Latent Autoimmune Diabetes ...
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Maternal serum glycosylated fibronectin as a short-term predictor of preeclampsia: a prospective cohort study
Abstract Background: Preeclampsia is a major pregnancy complication that results in significant maternal and infant mortality, most of which occurs in low and middle-income countries. The accurate and timely diagnosis of preeclampsia is critical in management of affected pregnancies to reduce maternal and fetal/neonatal morbidity and mortality, yet difficulties remain in establishing the rigorous ...
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A new article in JAMA reports self-blood glucose monitoring for type 2 diabetes is not necessary
According to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC report 2017; 30.3 million Americans – 9.4 percent of the U.S. population had diabetes in 2015. Home blood glucose monitoring is useful to determine the daily adjustments in treatment or insulin intake. It is advised to follow doctor's recommendations about how often to test the glucose levels. According to an article published ...
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Association between Diabetes Mellitus and chronic kidney disease with Muscle loss and weight loss
Muscle loss / muscle wasting is the condition in which, proteolytic systems for protein degradation are activated, while protein synthesis decreases, thereby resulting in muscle fiber shrinkage. This condition may be due age or might be due some chronic conditions like Diabetes mellitus (DM) or chronic kidney disease (CKD). Extreme muscle wasting often results in weight loss. Such a condition is ...
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A breath screen for active tuberculosis at the point-of-care
Tuberculosis (TB) is on the rise, and traditional technologies are not up to the task of containing this fast-spreading disease. But a fast, robust, and low-cost optical system is enabling point-of-care testing Driven by various social factors, a number of “old” diseases have recently reemerged to significantly threaten world health. Of particular concern is the increase in ...
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Summer Travel 2022 - We’re Still In A Pandemic
In the best of times, summer travel can be a challenge, but for summer 2022, travel may be a bit more chaotic as the COVID-19 pandemic moves through unpredictable ups and downs. ...
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Sexually Transmitted Infections and Disease: The Silent Pandemic
Twenty-five years ago, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report on confronting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) as the “hidden epidemic of tremendous health and economic consequence in the United States, and that the scope, impact, and consequences of STDs are under recognized by the public and in healthcare.”1 Today, the United States is in the midst of a major ...
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Low-entry-barrier point-of-care testing of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG in the population of Upper Austria from December 2020 until April 2021 - a feasible surveillance startegy for post-pandemic monitoring?
Abstract: The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2-specific immunoglobulin G antibodies in the federal state of Upper Austria (Austria) during the period of December 2020 until April 2021. To achieve this goal, we have analyzed anonymized data on the immune status of self-referral volunteers that have been determined at local pharmacies through a low-entry-barrier ...
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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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Point of care pulmonary function testing: Important now, more than ever
As the relentless waves of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to wash over the world, much attention has been focused on the idea of hospital bed shortages. As cases strain hospital systems everywhere, the most-commonly reported metrics one hears have to do with beds; how many ICU beds left, how many emergency beds, how many beds overall. While it is of course critical to understand how much physical ...
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What is an IVD Medical Device? Mic Provides a Compact Option
The global COVID-19 pandemic has spurred on a new demand for diagnostic equipment and products in the race to minimise spread. Airports, workplaces, border checkpoints, hospitals and countless other facilities - they’ve all needed accurate qPCR testing capabilities. ...
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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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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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Diabetes faces iPeak technology
DiabetOmics DiabetOmics®, Inc. is a global, commercial stage medical diagnostics company pioneering innovative, non-invasive point-of-care tests that are especially useful in alleviating the substantial economic and public health burden of maternal health and diabetes. They operate in USA and India. The primary area of focus is the diabetes market with products related to the detection ...
By IUL S.A.
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