Point-of-Care drugs of abuse testing is estimated at $576 million and is anticipated to grow at 2.4% over the next five years.

The most widely used professional and over the counter (OTC) patient self-tests for women’s health are pregnancy and ovulation tests.

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for the BD Veritor™ System for SARS-CoV-2, a digital test designed to detect COVID-19 antigens in symptomatic individuals in about 15 minutes at doctors' offices, urgent care centers, retail clinics and other convenient points of care.

The boundaries between the POCT and laboratory-based systems for blood and electrolyte testing are somewhat blurred, and instruments can be used in multiple scenarios.

Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide. More than half a billion people around the world continue to be affected by cardiovascular diseases, which accounted for 20.5 million deaths in 2021 – close to a third of all deaths globally and an overall increase on the estimated 121 million CVD deaths.

The University of California, Los Angeles School of Dentistry and South Korean semiconductor firm Dongwoon Anatech said on Friday that they have inked a three-year agreement worth upward of $2.4 million for the development of saliva-based liquid biopsy technologies.

The latest IDF Diabetes Atlas (2025) reports that diabetes affects 589 million adults (20-79 years) around the world in 2024, with over 4 in 10 unaware that they have the condition.

The POCT market is large and has enjoyed sound growth. From 2008 to 2018, the sales volume of the global POCT market doubled, with an average annual compound growth rate of 7.5%. The global POCT sales volume in 2021 was $31.5 billion.

Molecular diagnosis is performed at the gene level with nucleic acids as the object for detection, with high sensitivity and accuracy.

Microfluidic chip technology integrates basic operational units such as sample preparation, reaction, analysis, and detection, harnessing techniques from the fields of chemistry and biology into a chip of several square centimeters, automatically completing the entire analysis process.