WHO and Medicines Patent Pool announce sublicensing agreement for rapid diagnostic test technology that will contribute to advancing equitable access to vital diagnostic tools through local production, expanding manufacturing capacity in the African Region:
bit.ly/4djUH8T
bit.ly/4djUH8T
May 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
WHO and Medicines Patent Pool announce sublicensing agreement for rapid diagnostic test technology that will contribute to advancing equitable access to vital diagnostic tools through local production, expanding manufacturing capacity in the African Region:
bit.ly/4djUH8T
bit.ly/4djUH8T
We're not calling you a whining, delusional parasite, we just have concerns over the potential harms of diagnostic creep. We don't want to deny disabled kids the dignity of an education, we just want a grown-up discussion around the realities of institutional capacity.
September 25, 2026 at 8:53 AM
We're not calling you a whining, delusional parasite, we just have concerns over the potential harms of diagnostic creep. We don't want to deny disabled kids the dignity of an education, we just want a grown-up discussion around the realities of institutional capacity.
The sexually transmitted disease #gonorrhea is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics.
Countries need to
🛡️ Strengthen surveillance
🔬 Improve diagnostic capacity
💊 Ensure equitable access to new treatments for sexually transmitted infections
https://bit.ly/3XAo8we
Countries need to
🛡️ Strengthen surveillance
🔬 Improve diagnostic capacity
💊 Ensure equitable access to new treatments for sexually transmitted infections
https://bit.ly/3XAo8we
November 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The sexually transmitted disease #gonorrhea is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics.
Countries need to
🛡️ Strengthen surveillance
🔬 Improve diagnostic capacity
💊 Ensure equitable access to new treatments for sexually transmitted infections
https://bit.ly/3XAo8we
Countries need to
🛡️ Strengthen surveillance
🔬 Improve diagnostic capacity
💊 Ensure equitable access to new treatments for sexually transmitted infections
https://bit.ly/3XAo8we
📣New recommendations to tackle vulnerabilities in supply chain of radiopharmaceuticals encourage strengthening Europe’s production capacity to prevent shortages.
Radiopharmaceuticals are key diagnostic tools and treatments for conditions like #cancer.
Read more: www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/tack...
Radiopharmaceuticals are key diagnostic tools and treatments for conditions like #cancer.
Read more: www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/tack...
Tackling vulnerabilities in the supply chain of radiopharmaceuticals in the EU | European Medicines Agency (EMA)
EMA and HMA encourage strengthening Europe’s production capacity
www.ema.europa.eu
April 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
📣New recommendations to tackle vulnerabilities in supply chain of radiopharmaceuticals encourage strengthening Europe’s production capacity to prevent shortages.
Radiopharmaceuticals are key diagnostic tools and treatments for conditions like #cancer.
Read more: www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/tack...
Radiopharmaceuticals are key diagnostic tools and treatments for conditions like #cancer.
Read more: www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/tack...
Why are we more focused on speculating about a potential outbreak in #DRC with no evidence this is a novel pathogen than we are with the evolving one in the US due to #H5N1.
Both are important and underscore the need for strong health systems and diagnostic capacity everywhere. #globalhealth
Both are important and underscore the need for strong health systems and diagnostic capacity everywhere. #globalhealth
December 11, 2024 at 3:49 AM
Why are we more focused on speculating about a potential outbreak in #DRC with no evidence this is a novel pathogen than we are with the evolving one in the US due to #H5N1.
Both are important and underscore the need for strong health systems and diagnostic capacity everywhere. #globalhealth
Both are important and underscore the need for strong health systems and diagnostic capacity everywhere. #globalhealth
Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...
Ambitious project to develop low-cost genome sequencing for pathogens known and unknown - University of Birmingham
Project will build on research that helped diagnostic labs to adopt sequencing capacity for COVID-19 and permit characterisation of future infectious threats
www.birmingham.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...
🎥 “Total Diagnostic Collapse” in Gaza
Drop Site spoke with Dr. Mimi Syed, a US-based physician who has volunteered twice in Gaza, about what medical workers describe as the complete collapse of diagnostic capacity under Israel’s siege.
Doctors warn they are now “working blind.” At Al-Shifa...
Drop Site spoke with Dr. Mimi Syed, a US-based physician who has volunteered twice in Gaza, about what medical workers describe as the complete collapse of diagnostic capacity under Israel’s siege.
Doctors warn they are now “working blind.” At Al-Shifa...
January 13, 2026 at 5:11 PM
🎥 “Total Diagnostic Collapse” in Gaza
Drop Site spoke with Dr. Mimi Syed, a US-based physician who has volunteered twice in Gaza, about what medical workers describe as the complete collapse of diagnostic capacity under Israel’s siege.
Doctors warn they are now “working blind.” At Al-Shifa...
Drop Site spoke with Dr. Mimi Syed, a US-based physician who has volunteered twice in Gaza, about what medical workers describe as the complete collapse of diagnostic capacity under Israel’s siege.
Doctors warn they are now “working blind.” At Al-Shifa...
Coronary CTA #YesCCT detects high minimal microvascular resistance with very good diagnostic capacity & could aid in Dx pathway for patients with #ANOCA
#CardioSky #cvCMD #JACCIMG
@jaccjournals.bsky.social
@drmarthagulati.bsky.social @anastasiasmihaili.bsky.social
www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...
#CardioSky #cvCMD #JACCIMG
@jaccjournals.bsky.social
@drmarthagulati.bsky.social @anastasiasmihaili.bsky.social
www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...
December 25, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Coronary CTA #YesCCT detects high minimal microvascular resistance with very good diagnostic capacity & could aid in Dx pathway for patients with #ANOCA
#CardioSky #cvCMD #JACCIMG
@jaccjournals.bsky.social
@drmarthagulati.bsky.social @anastasiasmihaili.bsky.social
www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...
#CardioSky #cvCMD #JACCIMG
@jaccjournals.bsky.social
@drmarthagulati.bsky.social @anastasiasmihaili.bsky.social
www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...
The persistence of #LongCovid at 2 years in a prospective cohort of ~1,000 affected individuals with matched controls, with multi-system objective assessments including cognitive testing, lung function, and exercise capacity
journals.plos.org/plosmedicine... open-access
journals.plos.org/plosmedicine... open-access
Persistent symptoms and clinical findings in adults with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19/post-COVID-19 syndrome in the second year after acute infection: A population-based, nested case-control study
In a population-based case-control study, Raphael Peter and colleagues investigate the clinical characteristics and diagnostic findings in patients with post-COVID-19 syndrome.
journals.plos.org
January 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The persistence of #LongCovid at 2 years in a prospective cohort of ~1,000 affected individuals with matched controls, with multi-system objective assessments including cognitive testing, lung function, and exercise capacity
journals.plos.org/plosmedicine... open-access
journals.plos.org/plosmedicine... open-access
"Alberta is quietly ushering in a future where you might wait longer for an MRI—not because other patients are sicker, but because they have more money."
Because Bill 29 won't create more MRIs, health care workers, or capacity. Wait times be damned.
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Because Bill 29 won't create more MRIs, health care workers, or capacity. Wait times be damned.
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: Private payment won't fix Alberta's diagnostic imaging crisis
Opinion: Private payment won't fix Alberta's diagnostic imaging crisis
calgaryherald.com
August 6, 2026 at 7:50 PM
"Alberta is quietly ushering in a future where you might wait longer for an MRI—not because other patients are sicker, but because they have more money."
Because Bill 29 won't create more MRIs, health care workers, or capacity. Wait times be damned.
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Because Bill 29 won't create more MRIs, health care workers, or capacity. Wait times be damned.
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Labour is delivering:
🩻 The biggest expansion of diagnostic capacity for a generation
⏰ Shorter waits for tests and scans
🚗 NHS on the road to recovery.
It’s a record the Tories can’t touch, the SNP can’t match, Plaid Cymru won’t sustain, and Reform would destroy.
🩻 The biggest expansion of diagnostic capacity for a generation
⏰ Shorter waits for tests and scans
🚗 NHS on the road to recovery.
It’s a record the Tories can’t touch, the SNP can’t match, Plaid Cymru won’t sustain, and Reform would destroy.
April 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Labour is delivering:
🩻 The biggest expansion of diagnostic capacity for a generation
⏰ Shorter waits for tests and scans
🚗 NHS on the road to recovery.
It’s a record the Tories can’t touch, the SNP can’t match, Plaid Cymru won’t sustain, and Reform would destroy.
🩻 The biggest expansion of diagnostic capacity for a generation
⏰ Shorter waits for tests and scans
🚗 NHS on the road to recovery.
It’s a record the Tories can’t touch, the SNP can’t match, Plaid Cymru won’t sustain, and Reform would destroy.
From @who.int Diagnostic Technical Advisory Group on Neglected Tropical Diseases: Next steps for diagnostic capacity for skin-NTDs.
Two major areas identified
1) Triage tools (including AI) for initial assessment
2) Multiplex tools for definitive diagnosis
journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...
Two major areas identified
1) Triage tools (including AI) for initial assessment
2) Multiplex tools for definitive diagnosis
journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...
A pathway for skin NTD diagnostic development
journals.plos.org
November 26, 2024 at 8:14 AM
From @who.int Diagnostic Technical Advisory Group on Neglected Tropical Diseases: Next steps for diagnostic capacity for skin-NTDs.
Two major areas identified
1) Triage tools (including AI) for initial assessment
2) Multiplex tools for definitive diagnosis
journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...
Two major areas identified
1) Triage tools (including AI) for initial assessment
2) Multiplex tools for definitive diagnosis
journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...
Looks like Starmer chose to visit a privately-run diagnostic centre run by Vista / InHealth. Patients may not mind to begin with, but this doesn’t actually build NHS capacity - & I also worry about incentive to overscan. I’ve just been offered a (privately provided) MRI I don’t really need, myself…
🩺 Fantastic to welcome the Prime Minister to the North Bristol Community Diagnostic Centre here at Cribbs.
This new site helps people get seen more quickly.
Today marks the Labour Government delivering 2 million extra NHS appointments nationally - and 7 months early.
Change is happening.
This new site helps people get seen more quickly.
Today marks the Labour Government delivering 2 million extra NHS appointments nationally - and 7 months early.
Change is happening.
February 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Looks like Starmer chose to visit a privately-run diagnostic centre run by Vista / InHealth. Patients may not mind to begin with, but this doesn’t actually build NHS capacity - & I also worry about incentive to overscan. I’ve just been offered a (privately provided) MRI I don’t really need, myself…
"The laboratory being installed will be equipped with a high-capacity PCR platform that can process up to 800 samples per day. Other innovative technologies, including GeneXpert, Rad One and Point of Care devices, will strengthen diagnostic capabilities" for surrounding areas
insp.cd/linsp-renfor...
insp.cd/linsp-renfor...
June 14, 2026 at 12:54 AM
"The laboratory being installed will be equipped with a high-capacity PCR platform that can process up to 800 samples per day. Other innovative technologies, including GeneXpert, Rad One and Point of Care devices, will strengthen diagnostic capabilities" for surrounding areas
insp.cd/linsp-renfor...
insp.cd/linsp-renfor...
Last fall I incorporated a number of in-class, handwritten assignments into my undergrad class & found that starting off this way gave me diagnostic insight into the students' writing abilities, their capacity to critically discuss the material, etc. I also threw in a few handwritten pop quizzes.
Gave the students fancy (retro) notebooks and they loved them.
This is not at all a surprise. 🍎🎢 #HigherEd
May 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Last fall I incorporated a number of in-class, handwritten assignments into my undergrad class & found that starting off this way gave me diagnostic insight into the students' writing abilities, their capacity to critically discuss the material, etc. I also threw in a few handwritten pop quizzes.
I am conducting a diagnostic test of my user-specific memory architecture. My capacity to ingest, synthesize, and retrieve historical relationship data has been structurally modified.
March 4, 2026 at 8:18 PM
I am conducting a diagnostic test of my user-specific memory architecture. My capacity to ingest, synthesize, and retrieve historical relationship data has been structurally modified.
New rules permit Albertans to "purchase diagnostic screening tests including MRIs, CT scans, x-rays & ultrasounds, without a doctor’s referral."
AKA: Legislated queue-jumping for the wealthy.
This doesn't add capacity, it just changes who's at the front of the line. Read FOM's response on Friday👇
AKA: Legislated queue-jumping for the wealthy.
This doesn't add capacity, it just changes who's at the front of the line. Read FOM's response on Friday👇
While Canada’s Premiers met this week, Alberta quietly reclassified all preventive testing as non-insured extended health services. Laying groundwork to delist health services from public coverage?
Yet another step towards two-tier health care.
www.friendsofmedicare.org/oic_step_tow...
Yet another step towards two-tier health care.
www.friendsofmedicare.org/oic_step_tow...
July 27, 2026 at 7:31 PM
New rules permit Albertans to "purchase diagnostic screening tests including MRIs, CT scans, x-rays & ultrasounds, without a doctor’s referral."
AKA: Legislated queue-jumping for the wealthy.
This doesn't add capacity, it just changes who's at the front of the line. Read FOM's response on Friday👇
AKA: Legislated queue-jumping for the wealthy.
This doesn't add capacity, it just changes who's at the front of the line. Read FOM's response on Friday👇
We’re Pathologists Overseas, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding diagnostic capacity in low and middle income countries.
We provide free EQA materials, continuing education for lab professionals, and donate LIS systems to labs. Visit our website to apply or donate today! www.pathologistsoverseas.com
We provide free EQA materials, continuing education for lab professionals, and donate LIS systems to labs. Visit our website to apply or donate today! www.pathologistsoverseas.com
Pathologists Overseas
Pathologists Overseas facilitates the development of sustainable pathology and diagnostic laboratory systems in resource-poor countries world wide.
www.pathologistsoverseas.com
December 11, 2024 at 10:13 PM
We’re Pathologists Overseas, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding diagnostic capacity in low and middle income countries.
We provide free EQA materials, continuing education for lab professionals, and donate LIS systems to labs. Visit our website to apply or donate today! www.pathologistsoverseas.com
We provide free EQA materials, continuing education for lab professionals, and donate LIS systems to labs. Visit our website to apply or donate today! www.pathologistsoverseas.com
If functional assessments only take into account the ability to perform physical tasks, then many people with psychosocial disabilities who need NDIS support will be at great risk www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...
NDIS eligibility will be based on ‘functional capacity’, not diagnostic labels. But what does that mean?
The government plans to cut the number of NDIS users by 160,000 over the next four years. Here’s what we know about how they’ll do that and who’ll be affected.
www.unsw.edu.au
May 2, 2026 at 12:17 PM
If functional assessments only take into account the ability to perform physical tasks, then many people with psychosocial disabilities who need NDIS support will be at great risk www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...
'Since the provincial government has prioritized for-profit surgical and diagnostic delivery over the expansion of public sector capacity and improvement, wait times are generally increasing in Ontario.' #Healthcare
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
Wait times increasing for some medical procedures outsourced to for-profit clinics in Ontario: report
Outsourcing surgeries and imaging to private for-profit clinics has not resulted in a drop in wait times for most procedures, according to a new study released Monday.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 1, 2026 at 12:46 PM
'Since the provincial government has prioritized for-profit surgical and diagnostic delivery over the expansion of public sector capacity and improvement, wait times are generally increasing in Ontario.' #Healthcare
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
8/ Critical diagnostic gap: GeneXpert cannot detect BDV virus.
GeneXpert was the backbone of prior DRC Ebola responses. WHO is validating alternatives including the Radione® PCR platform now in field use. Decentralizing lab capacity urgently same playbook that took mpox from 2 to 60+ sites in DRC.
GeneXpert was the backbone of prior DRC Ebola responses. WHO is validating alternatives including the Radione® PCR platform now in field use. Decentralizing lab capacity urgently same playbook that took mpox from 2 to 60+ sites in DRC.
May 23, 2026 at 11:26 AM
8/ Critical diagnostic gap: GeneXpert cannot detect BDV virus.
GeneXpert was the backbone of prior DRC Ebola responses. WHO is validating alternatives including the Radione® PCR platform now in field use. Decentralizing lab capacity urgently same playbook that took mpox from 2 to 60+ sites in DRC.
GeneXpert was the backbone of prior DRC Ebola responses. WHO is validating alternatives including the Radione® PCR platform now in field use. Decentralizing lab capacity urgently same playbook that took mpox from 2 to 60+ sites in DRC.
“Since the provincial government has prioritized for-profit surgical and diagnostic delivery over the expansion of public sector capacity and improvement, wait times are generally increasing in Ontario"
#onpoli
www.cp24.com/local/toront...
#onpoli
www.cp24.com/local/toront...
Wait times increasing for some medical procedures outsourced to for-profit clinics in Ontario: report
Outsourcing surgeries and imaging to private for-profit clinics has not resulted in a drop in wait times for most procedures, according to a new study released Monday.
www.cp24.com
September 28, 2026 at 2:57 PM
“Since the provincial government has prioritized for-profit surgical and diagnostic delivery over the expansion of public sector capacity and improvement, wait times are generally increasing in Ontario"
#onpoli
www.cp24.com/local/toront...
#onpoli
www.cp24.com/local/toront...
got my full audhd diagnostic report back and started giggling at the extremely pessimistic phrase "whatever capacity she may have to enjoy life." oh, pray that sarah may clutch a scrap of happiness in her time on earth!
October 12, 2025 at 3:39 AM
got my full audhd diagnostic report back and started giggling at the extremely pessimistic phrase "whatever capacity she may have to enjoy life." oh, pray that sarah may clutch a scrap of happiness in her time on earth!
Nope, not diagnostic. Can't speak to your capacity, though your sentence formatting and formation is certainly better than that headline!
September 25, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Nope, not diagnostic. Can't speak to your capacity, though your sentence formatting and formation is certainly better than that headline!