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COVID-19 Diagnostics

COVID-19 Diagnostics
James Rosh  Jan 03, 2024  11 months ago
Medical Devices: In a startling development within the realm of medical devices, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently issued a Class I recall for Philips North America's Panorama 1.0T HFO MRI systems. This drastic measure has been taken due to the potential risk of explosion associated with the use of these magnetic resonance imaging machines. The ramifications of this reca...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID Diagnostics  Sep 02, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID Diagnostics: IncellDx, a company based in California-USA specializing in a precision medicine and an array of advanced novel diagnostics and prognostics for the treatment of various infectious disease and cancer is officially launching the world’s first diagnostic test for Long COVID in Europe this month after securing the CE-IVD marking in Europe.   The company’s uti...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics  Jul 14, 2022  2 years ago
It is amazing and shocking as to how the global medical community has been addressing a global pandemic that has been plaguing the world for the last 31 months with a new pathogen outbreak that involves a novel virus that we still know little about and worse is constantly evolving and changing the ways of not only how it evades human host immunity… both natural and vaccine induced but also ...
Source: Omicron - D-Dimer  Jan 07, 2022  3 years ago
Doctors and physicians in the United States and United Kingdom have been reporting of very high D-Dimer levels in blood works of infected Omicron patients irrespective of their initial symptom status or disease severity.   In some cases, the levels of D-Dimer elevations have been so high and never seen before in any known disease conditions!   Many patients who also got their blood wor...
Source: Omicron Diagnostics - Saliva Swabs  Dec 29, 2021  3 years ago
Omicron Diagnostics: Researchers from the University of Cape Town-South Africa in a new study have found that saliva swabs are more effective than nasal mid-turbinate swabs for the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based detection of omicron variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).   The new emerged Omicron variant is characterized by more than 50 distinct muta...
Source: COVID-19-Diagnostics  Nov 28, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19-Diagnostics: A new study by researchers from the University of Montreal-Canada has shown that measuring the amount of viral RNA in the blood is a reliable indicator of COVID-19 mortality risk.   To date, despite advances in COVID-19 management, identifying patients evolving toward death remains challenging.   In order the to identify early predictors of mortality within 60 days...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics  Nov 15, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: One of the UK’s leading experts in COVID-19 testing, Dr Quinton Fivelman PhD from London Medical Laboratory has issued a warning that current standard COVID-19 PCR test is not able to pick up many of the newly emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants and sub-variants. He made the alert publicly and also warned various health agencies and also testing sites across the UK and the res...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics  Oct 19, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: Scientist from the department of chemistry at the University of Warwick-UK along with experts from Iceni Diagnostics Ltd-UK and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust-UK have developed and demonstrated a new diagnostic technology using sugars instead of antibodies to detect the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.   To date since the start of the COVID-19 pa...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics  Jul 23, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: A new study by researchers from the University of Manchester-UK has found that platelet size can be used to predict COVID-19 severity and mortality. According to the researchers, parameters reflecting platelet size can be sensitive indicators that circulating platelets are activated and COVID-19 patients are at increased risk of thrombosis.   The team attempted to asses...
Source:Medical Innovations  Jul 02, 2021  3 years ago
Medical Innovations: Scientist and engineers from MIT and Harvard University have developed an innovative face mask that can diagnose if the wearer has COVID-19 within about 90 minutes. The masks are embedded with tiny, disposable sensors that can be fitted into other face masks and could also be adapted to detect other viruses. Face Masks with sensors that detects SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Credit...
Source: COVID-19 News  Jun 28, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 News: Already we are seeing more evidence that SARS-CoV-2 infections are far more worse than HIV infections including those by the newer emerging variants, whereby the immune system is damaged and disrupted by these coronaviruses leading to not just immediate health issues but also to more complicated long term medical conditions down the road for so called recovered COVID-19 patients, no...
Source: COVID-19 Research  May 08, 2021  4 years ago
New Emerging T205I And D399N Mutations On Various Strains Of New Variants Evade Detection By Most Current COVID-19 PCR Tests   Researchers from University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center-Seattle, have in a new study found that there are emerging mutations such as T205I And D399N  present in the nucleocapsid protein  of new variants are helping the SARS-C...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics  Jan 10, 2021  4 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: The US FDA has issued official warnings about the potential risk for false negative results with PCR molecular tests for SARS-CoV-2 due to mutations such as a recently detected B.1.1.7 variant of the virus.   The US regulator issued an alert to clinical laboratory staff and clinicians. The agency warned that false negative results can occur with any molecular test for ...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics  Dec 06, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: Researchers from Gladstone Institutes, University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have developed a new fast and portable yet accurate COVID-19 diagnostic platform utilizing CRISPR testing technology and the smartphone camera.   The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus outbreak has become an ongoing global pandemic due in part...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics  Oct 21, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: Siemens Healthineers has introduced the CLINITEST Rapid COVID-19 Antigen Test that helps identify SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals in 15 minutes so they can isolate sooner and avoid spreading COVID-19. The easy-to-use test, which doesn't require specialized laboratory personnel or instruments, offers flexibility to test in locations that benefit from immediate results &nb...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics  Oct 14, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: A new study led by resarchesr from University of Michigan and involved an internation collaboration of various scientist and medical institutions from various countries has identified a protein called suPAR or soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor that can