Experts Agree That an Affordable TB Screening Technology Can Lower Overall...
Published this month in a PLOS One article was a study intent on addressing the difficulty in expanding the use of GeneXpert MTB / RIF (Xpert) in low-income countries with highly constrained laboratory...
View ArticleProgress Report on Nigerian Clinical Evaluation
It was the expectation of all vested parties that the clinical evaluation would begin no later than January 2014. We visited Nigeria in December, at which time TBDx™ was installed and training was...
View Article2014 – 3rd Quarter Business Update
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill Let’s get the lone negative out-of-the-way – the investment catalyst that we anticipated...
View ArticleTBDx™ Selected for Workshop Evaluation in India
Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Director of the National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT), has extended a formal invitation (NIRT Invite) to attend a December 8th – 12th workshop in Chennai,...
View ArticleFIND and APVS Launch TBDx™ Feasibility Evaluation in Peru
The mission of the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) is to assist in the development and deployment of accurate and affordable diagnostic tests for poverty-related diseases in developing...
View ArticleThe Importance of Automated Sputum Microscopy as a Diagnostic Tool Continues...
Each year the Stop TB Partnership, and its New Diagnostic Working Group, host an open half-day meeting to discuss the development of new TB diagnostics. The meeting arrays a list of promising...
View ArticleWHO Target Product Profiles and the Characteristics of TBDx™
During the recent 45th World Conference on Lung Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a new Meeting Report, “High-priority target product profiles for new tuberculosis diagnostics:...
View ArticleThe Kennedy Report – The Sequel
Day 2 began with Catherina Boehme, CEO of the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), providing a pipeline overview of new diagnostic technologies emerging from the market. Ms. Boehme...
View ArticleTBDx™ Feasibility Evaluation Launched in Vietnam
Last week Applied Visual Sciences moved one step closer to securing a World Health Organization (WHO) endorsement for TBDx™. Along with our collaboration partner, FIND (Foundation for Innovative New...
View ArticleTBDx™ Activities and Continuing Progress: A Quick Snapshot
Applied Visual Sciences, Inc. (APVS.OB) Over the past several months TBDx has been engaged in evaluations in several countries or has been involved in the publication of those results. Here is a quick...
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