The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting clinical laboratory staff and healthcare providers that false positive results can occur with Covid-19 antigen tests.

Elizabeth Holmes is set to go to trial in March 2021 after a last-ditch effort to throw out the pending criminal charges against her failed

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for Abbott Laboratories’ lab-based Covid-19 antibody blood test.

Three scientists will share the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their seminal discoveries that led to the identification of the Hepatitis C virus, a significant health problem across the globe that can lead to cirrhosis and liver cancer in patients.

Progentec Diagnostics Inc. launched a novel blood test to determine the likelihood that a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus (commonly known as both SLE and lupus) will experience an immunologic disease flare during the coming 12 weeks.

South San Francisco-based Freenome closed on an oversubscribed $270 million Series C financing, with the round led by new investor Bain Capital Life Sciences and existing investor Perceptive Advisors.

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that a new blood test may be helpful for detecting Alzheimer’s disease as early as 20 years before the onset of cognitive impairment.

Many studies assessing the accuracy of COVID-19 antibody tests had major shortcomings, a review concluded, offering further evidence the blood tests are of little use for people seeking to know with certainty if they have been infected.

Recent updates include the U.S. FDA posting a list of antibody tests that are being withdrawn voluntarily by the test’s commercial manufacturer.

Roche

Britain is in talks with Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG to buy an accurate COVID-19 antibody test, following the lead of the European Union and United States, which had already given preliminary approval to the tests.