Hitachi High-Tech and Invivoscribe on Monday announced a partnership to combine their expertise and technologies to develop molecular diagnostics to diagnose cancer and monitor disease during treatment.

Existing methods for detecting and diagnosing COVID-19 are either expensive and complex or inaccurate.

Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical on Thursday announced that China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has granted approval for Fosun Diagnostic's Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Antigen Detection Kit (Colloidal Gold) for COVID-19 screening.

Medical advances are causing a gradual increase in average life expectancy. However, this comes at a price, as the number of cases of dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases grows with age.

The scientists, led by Joseph Vinetz, MD, an infectious diseases specialist, were interested to find out if an oral medication used to treat pancreatitis could reduce the viral load (the amount of virus in your body) of SARS-CoV-2 and improve symptoms in people newly diagnosed with COVID-19.

The Biden-Harris Administration announced on April 4 that more than 59 million Americans with Medicare Part B, including those enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan, now have access to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved, authorized, or cleared OTC COVID-19 tests at no cost.

Agilent Technologies on Tuesday announced it has obtained expanded CE-IVD marking for the use of its PD-L1 IHC 28-8 pharmDx immunohistochemical assay as a companion diagnostic test to guide treatment for newly approved indications for Bristol Myers Squibb's Opdivo.

Foundation Medicine said on Thursday that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved its FoundationOne CDx test as a companion diagnostic to identify non-small cell lung cancer patients with EGFR exon 19 deletions or exon 21 alterations for treatment with EGFR inhibitors.

Burning Rock Biotech said on Tuesday that the National Medical Products Administration of China has approved its nine-gene sequencing assay, LungCure CDx, as a Class III medical device.

The development of new scientific ways to see more deeply into the building blocks of nature on a cellular level has led to the some of the greatest advances in medicine over the last century.