Even minor reductions in COVID transmission rates due to early isolation would justify the additional costs associated with the policy.
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Countries must be encouraged to distribute essential healthcare provision - like diagnosis - to where people most need them and where they can be accessed more easily.
We’ve made advances towards delivering new devices to empower even people with basic medical knowledge to administer malaria tests in the field.
Engineering students in Malawi and Tanzania have used the materials and tools available to them to build ventilators, personal protective equipment and UV disinfection systems.
An internationally used guideline for assessing whether people should be referred for an autism assessment has been wrong for ten years.
It takes around 61 hours to identify the pathogen causing a patient’s pneumonia. A new test reduces that to four hours.
Older coronavirus patients face grimmer outlooks. A virologist explains the aging-related changes in how immune systems work that are to blame.
A new test, which can diagnose COVID-19 in 15 minutes, has been approved by the TGA. But it’s no silver bullet.
Researchers are developing tattoo inks that do more than make pretty colors. Some can sense chemicals, temperature and UV radiation, setting the stage for tattoos that diagnose health problems.
Nanotechnology has an impressive record against viruses.
Testing large numbers of people regularly would reduce the spread of the coronavirus in the US. Laboratory testing is slow and expensive, but rapid screening tests could be the answer.
Screening multiple samples with a single test gets more people diagnosed using fewer supplies. Two health policy researchers explain how it works and how it could help the US.
Mobile devices can be turned into tools to rapidly identify a variety of disease-causing agents, including bacteria, toxins and viruses.
Using antibodies to trap the virus could create near-instant pregnancy test-style kits.
There are now dozens of test for COVID-19 with hundreds more awaiting the FDA’s authorization. So which test is best? Does anyone know?
The science behind direct-to-consumer gut microbe testing is in its infancy. Here’s what you need to know if you’ve been tempted to get your microbiome analysed.
A molecular biologist explains who should get tested, how the tests work and what the US government is doing to make tests available during a rapidly changing crisis.
Healthcare workers in sub-Saharan Africa lack access to laboratory diagnostics and often have to guess which antibiotics to use for presumed infections.
Superfast DNA analysis is now being used to crack medical mysteries when physicians can’t figure out whether an infectious microbe is causing the disease.
The increased demand for home-based diagnostic tests calls for stricter regulation.
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Canada Research Chair of Epidemiology & Global Health, McGill University
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Emeritus Associate Professor in Public Law, UCT. Visiting Adjunct Professor, WITS School of Governance; Director, Africa Programme, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Orthopaedic Research, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University
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Researcher, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
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Associate Professor, Dept of Medicine, Monash University, Monash University
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Lecturer, Mbarara University of Science and Technology
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Professor Emeritus of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Public Health, Colorado State University
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, McGill University
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Head of the Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate Professor of Medical Laboratory Science, Rush University
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Epidemiologist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Associate Professor, Cape Peninsula University of Technology