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FDA Clears Point-of-Care Test to Detect Hepatitis C Virus

Credit: Cepheid. The Xpert HCV test delivers results in about an hour. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted marketing authorization to Xpert ® HCV, a point-of-care hepatitis C virus (HCV ...
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HCV finger-stick test accurate, gives results in 1 hour

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Back to Healio A new hepatitis C virus finger-stick test ...
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HCV testing guidelines tied to increased screening for pregnant women

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . HCV screening increased after guidelines updated to screen all adults and during each pregnancy. Screening rose ...
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FDA Gives Nod to Abbott’s HCV Genotyping Test

FDA this week approved its first genotyping test for patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV), Abbott’s RealTime HCV Genotype II. The test can differentiate genotypes ...
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New test allows for one-step diagnosis of HCV infection

The current standard in diagnosing Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection requires two sequential steps that make it suboptimal, costly, inconvenient, time consuming, and globally not widely available or ...