An important lesson learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is how critical the microbiology laboratory is to ensuring hospitals have surge testing capabilities. At the same time, an increased focus on ...

After a slow and criticized rollout of U.S. government-designed testing kits for the novel coronavirus COVID-19, federal agencies enforced new policies to scale up capacity to conduct tests and ...

The Infectious Disease Society of America and the American Society for Microbiology released an updated guide Thursday to help healthcare providers select the right molecular lab test and properly ...

An important lesson learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is how critical the microbiology laboratory is to ensuring hospitals have surge testing capabilities. At the same time, an increased focus on ...

Automation has been used in laboratories for decades, and, indeed, any use of machinery in the laboratory can be considered automation. Automation is the change from manual work to the use of machines ...

A rapid training process and assembly line approach have allowed the QEII Health Sciences Centre microbiology lab in Halifax to more than triple its COVID-19 testing capacity in recent days. In the ...

Forty million lab tests are done in B.C. annually. Each and every one is an opportunity for human error leading to patient harm. In a bid to avert errors in ...

Emerging infectious diseases (including community-, hospital- and bioterrorism-acquired infections), emerging resistance to antimicrobial agents and increased social demand are increasing the volume ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Food Safety Department has established a new microbiology laboratory equipped with modern facilities for testing various food products in Thiruvananthapuram. The government ...

KOCHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated virtually a microbiology food testing lab set up in the Regional Analytical Laboratory in Kakkanad. Health Minister Veena George, who presided ...