Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed a diagnostic tool that uses artificial intelligence to generate a score to assess the prognosis of individual patients diagnosed with … [Read more...]
Emerging Tests
Qiagen Launches Portable COVID-19 Antigen Digital Testing Hub
November 24, 2020
The rapid evolution of COVID-19 testing in response to the need for speed and mobility continues. One notable development on the antigen testing front is Qiagen’s U.S. rollout of a portable digital … [Read more...]
DTC
Research Supports Viability of Using Health Data from Consumer Wearables to Diagnose COVID-19
November 24, 2020
That Fitbit, smartwatch or other device that many of us wear around our wrist to count our steps, calories burned and other fitness metrics on a daily basis may prove to be an ideal tool for … [Read more...]
NPR Report
CDC Knowingly Sent Flawed COVID-19 Test Kits to Public Laboratories in Early Days of Crisis
November 24, 2020
Early missteps characterized the federal government’s initial efforts to ensure a supply of reliable COVID-19 diagnostic tests in response to the public health emergency. And now a new National Public … [Read more...]
The Business of Testing
HHS Orders FDA to Resume EUA Review of Laboratory Developed Tests for COVID-19
November 24, 2020
Oh no you don’t! A month after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its decision to discontinue review of applications for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) submitted by test makers … [Read more...]
Tool
Model Substance Abuse and Fitness for Duty Policy
November 3, 2020
Workplace substance abuse remains a major challenge for labs. Although sound in principle, the traditional zero tolerance policy is ill-suited to the legal complexities of the modern world. This is … [Read more...]
