The World Health Organization (WHO) gave its backing on Wednesday to a new molecular test for tuberculosis made by Cepheid which can rapidly diagnose TB, one of the world's biggest killer diseases.

New agreement aims to provide greater access to millions more high-quality tuberculosis (TB) tests for people living in the least developed countries where the need is most urgent. Enables the Global ...

Cepheid has supported TB testing worldwide for over 15 years. Xpert MTB/RIF, released in 2009 in collaboration with the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), was a first-of-its-kind ...

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 ...

Cepheid said Thursday it received de novo authorization for the only molecular test in the U.S. to detect hepatitis C virus RNA directly from fingerstick blood samples. The Food and Drug ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 21, 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, ...

Cepheid is developing a rapid test, known as Xpert Carba-R, for detecting multidrug-resistant pathogens. The test has several advantages over existing diagnostic methods. The company successfully ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Currently circulating mutant strains of influenza highlight the need for multi-target diagnostic tests. Two recently identified mutations in the matrix ...

Managing One of the Largest Enterovirus Testing Populations, Children's Medical Center Dallas Among Leading Institutions to Quickly Adopt Cepheid's SUNNYVALE, Calif ...

For much of last year, the coronavirus crept, undetected, across eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Test samples had to be sent more than 1,500 kilometres from remote hospitals to the capital ...

A new diagnostic test for the novel coronavirus will return results in just 45 minutes, four times faster than existing machines. But the test, emergency use of which was cleared by the Food and Drug ...