Ortho Clinical takes a haircut
Discount pricing and poor first day defies the recent trend for floating device makers.
A new setting for antigen testing
It is vital that the first authorised at-home, non-prescription Covid-19 antigen test be used in the right way.
The promise and the perils of antigen testing
A new UK plan to use antigen tests for wide-scale screening for Covid-19 may not be the easy win the government is seeking.
Balancing the accuracy and cost of antigen testing
Antigen tests for Covid-19 can be useful if used in the right settings, but those settings are expensive.
Abbott rides to the rescue with $5 Covid-19 test
The BinaxNow antigen test is fast and acceptably accurate – but above all, cheap.
Smaller device makers put in a muted performance
Mid- and small-cap medtechs find themselves at the mercy of government responses to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Quidel wins the Covid-19 antigen test race
Antigen tests are faster and cheaper than viral RNA assays, but are notably less accurate.
