Point of care testing

Discover the latest COVID-19 news with these bite-sized stories from across the field of diagnostic medicine

Healthcare services face mounting pressures each winter – but rapid, reliable diagnostics can help

A blood-based triage test for TB could provide a cheap and reliable point-of-care diagnostic for people in low-resource areas

This year’s International Pathology Day was all about point-of-care testing – so how do the experts think quality can be delivered across the board?

New synthetic scaffolds that sit under the skin and attract cancer cells could provide the earliest indication of metastasis

How can we develop laboratory standards and regulations in India to close the gap between the services we offer and the services our patients need?

A new funding boost looks set to facilitate the deployment of the world’s first saliva-based rapid diagnostic test for malaria

From a urine test to a coloring book, we explore the latest in pathology and laboratory medicine with these bitesized news stories

Fingerprint drug screening is fast, easy, and noninvasive – offering dignity to patients and easing the testing burden on overloaded laboratories

A new, noninvasive test for assessing gut function could diagnose inflammatory bowel disease using only a small blood and stool sample.