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.
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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.
We cannot end TB with century-old technologies and poor quality care. It is time to reinvent the way we are managing TB, and overcome our collective failures of the imagination.
The latest World Bank report on South Africa addresses solutions to the country’s economic challenges.
The World Health Organization has made bold progress by including many tests for non-communicable diseases on its new ‘Essential Diagnostics List.’
Countries globally should adopt and adapt the World Health Organization’s new Essential Diagnostics List – as a key step in the management of all diseases.
The current range of TB diagnostic tests have various limitations like the sputum smear which is outdated, clumsy and takes long to process.
Even though you don’t think of your mobile phone as being anything like a microscope, it’s got almost all the parts you need.
When it comes to fighting antimicrobial resistance, most of the focus is on bacteria. But we’d be foolish to forget about fungi.
If you’re not sure why you need a urine test or the right way to collect a sample, here’s what you need to know.
Public health experts enlist the molecular biology tools that create genetically modified organisms – as well as the GMOs themselves – in the fight against emerging infectious diseases.
Developments in miniaturisation can give us point-of-care tests for grave conditions such as cancer and heart disease.
Labor’s shadow health minister Catherine King, said that the government has “cut bulk-billing payments for pathology and diagnostic imaging to make patients pay more”. Is that right?
Kontributor teratas
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Canada Research Chair of Epidemiology & Global Health, McGill University
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Professor and Director of Doherty Epidemiology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth College
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Professor of Pathology, UNSW Sydney
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Public Health, Flinders University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Biology, Harvard University
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Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor in Health Economics, Flinders University
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Postdoctoral research scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Centre for Biomedical Technologies, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Orthopaedic Research, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Centre for Evidence-Based Health Care, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
