Point of care testing

Why it’s important to establish ground rules and quality for point-of-care testing

A new smartphone laboratory allows pathologists to analyze eight samples simultaneously

Rapid, affordable tests for bacterial infections could reduce overprescription

Founder Elizabeth Holmes admits that direct-to-consumer testing company Theranos’ technology doesn’t work – and wasn’t often used

Electrical fields can modulate sample flow through lab-on-a-chip devices for greater precision

Researchers are on a mission to develop rapid point-of-care tests to establish infection cause and drive down unnecessary antibiotic use

Labs must take a proactive approach to implementing point-of-care testing and recognize their limitations and when use is and isn’t appropriate

A new type of platform for HIV/HCV co-infections could offer an affordable, portable and easy to use diagnostic solution for resource-poor settings

A new microfluidic device offers quick, affordable trypanosome detection and separation in the field

Mobile devices promise a new future of point-of-care diagnostics for all