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KENNETT SQUARE, PA — Genesis HealthCare, (OTC PINK: GENN), a national post-acute care provider, announced this week that it completed its millionth point-of-care (POC) COVID-19 test on April 19, 2021. …
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized marketing of the GI Genius, the first device that uses artificial intelligence (AI) based on machine learning to assist clinicians …
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will invest $10 billion from the American Rescue Plan to ramp up screening testing to help schools reopen, …
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) this week for the Quidel QuickVue At-Home COVID-19 Test, another antigen test where certain individuals …
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the first over-the-counter (OTC) fully at-home diagnostic test for COVID-19. The Ellume COVID-19 …
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched a pilot program with five states to use portable, cartridge-based COVID-19 molecular test kits that provide …
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and The Rockefeller Foundation have signed an agreement to identify and share effective approaches for using rapid point-of-care (POC) antigen tests …
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The Trump Administration is detailing the national distribution plan for the Abbott BinaxNOW Ag Card rapid test to assist Governors’ efforts to continue to safely reopen their states. BinaxNOW is …
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SILVER SPRING, MD — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for the first antigen test where results can be read directly from the testing card, a …
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HARRISBURG, PA — Governor Tom Wolf announced that OraSure Technologies Inc., a developer and manufacturer of rapid diagnostic tests, collection and stabilization devices headquartered in Northampton County, will expand its …
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