Alaska Public Media

This machine is a microcosm of Alaska's, and America's, COVID-19 testing successes and failures

Testing for COVID-19 is technical, expensive and complicated -- particularly in Alaska, with its remote, far-flung communities and overlapping systems of tribal and private health care. That ...
CNN

Cepheid Announces Development of Four-in-One Combination Test for SARS-CoV-2, Flu A, Flu B and RSV

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Cepheid today announced the development of a next-generation test to assist global efforts in the fight against the spread of COVID-19 during the ...
Business Insider

Cepheid Receives Emergency Use Authorization For SARS-CoV-2, Flu A, Flu B and RSV Combination Test

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Cepheid today announced it has received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for Xpert ® Xpress SARS-CoV-2 ...
Business Insider

Cepheid Receives Health Canada License for SARS-CoV-2, Flu A, Flu B and RSV Combination Test

Challenged by Similar Clinical Presentations, Accurate Detection & Differentiation of all 4 Viruses is Critical for Clinicians This Flu Season SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 14, 2021 /CNW/ -- Cepheid today ...
Reuters

Health advocates press Cepheid for cheaper mpox tests

LONDON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Global health advocates have written to the makers of a key mpox diagnostic test to call for its price to be cut from around $20 per test to $5, to help tackle low testing ...