Swiss drugmaker Roche (ROG.S) said on Friday it has agreed to buy LumiraDx's (LMDX.O) Point of Care diagnostics platform business for about $295 million.

Canadian diagnostics firm MedMira on Wednesday said it has secured US Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for the HIV-2 claim that will be used in its rapid antigen tests for HIV-1/2 detection.

Alveo Technologies said Wednesday that it has struck 19 agreements for the distribution of its point-of-care molecular diagnostic products throughout Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.a

Ad Astra Diagnostics (AAD), developer of rapid diagnostic systems, today announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its QScout™ rapid-result hematology system, which provides fast, point-of-care white blood cell counts (WBCs), neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, and differentiates the number and percent of five types of mature WBCs as well as immature granulocytes.

Home testing firm Imaware announced on Monday that it has acquired Binx Health's at-home consumer testing business for an undisclosed amount.

Co-Diagnostics has received an $8.97m grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support a tuberculosis (TB) test that is under development.

In a recent study published in The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine, researchers evaluated the performance of a compact diagnostic assay that can accurately and rapidly diagnose lactose intolerance using capillary blood and buccal swab samples.

LumiraDx Limited (NASDAQ: LMDX), a next-generation point of care (POC) diagnostics company, today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2023.

QuidelOrtho Corporation (Nasdaq: QDEL) (the “Company” or “QuidelOrtho”), a global provider of innovative in vitro diagnostic technologies designed for point-of-care settings, clinical labs and transfusion medicine, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended July 2, 2023.

Abbott has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for its advanced Alinity® h-series hematology system, paving the way for laboratories throughout the country to run complete blood counts (CBC) as a part of Abbott’s Alinity family of diagnostic products.