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Lumos’ Febridx rapid POC test

Lumos stock rockets 162% on commercialization deal worth $317M

July 16, 2025
By Tamra Sami
Lumos Diagnostics Inc.’s stock shot up 162% Wednesday morning on news that it signed a pivotal commercial deal with Phase Scientific International Ltd to expand its reach into the U.S. market for its Febridx rapid, point-of-care test for bacterial infections.
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BD’s biosciences & diagnostics unit in $17.5B merger with Waters

July 14, 2025
By Annette Boyle
Three months earlier than an expected update on a deal, Becton, Dickinson and Co. reported its biosciences and diagnostic solutions business will combine with Waters Corp. in a transaction valued at $17.5 billion. The resulting enterprise will operate under the Waters name and use its trading symbol (NYSE:WAT). Waters CEO Udit Batra will head the combined company.
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Susan Monarez, CDC director nominee

HELP sends CDC nominee on her way to Senate vote

July 9, 2025
By Mari Serebrov and Mark McCarty
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With the June 9 U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee party-line vote of 12-11, Susan Monarez’s nomination is headed to the Senate floor where she could become the first CDC director to go through the confirmation process. That’s thanks to a provision in the bipartisan PREVENT Pandemics Act that was signed into law in 2022.
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U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court upholds ACA’s preventive care coverage

June 27, 2025
By Annette Boyle
The U.S. Supreme Court preserved the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force coverage mandate that requires payers to cover certain preventive services at no cost to patients in a 6-3 ruling. That’s very good news for many diagnostics companies including Exact Sciences Corp. and Guardant Health Inc. as well as companies that manufacture HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PReP) medications such as Gilead Sciences Inc.
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JAMA OpEd

Too much at stake for dismissed ACIP members to go quietly

June 18, 2025
By Mari Serebrov
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The 17 members abruptly terminated June 9 from the U.S. CDC’s Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices are not going gently into the night. Instead, they’re raging against what could be the dying of the light.
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Empty conference room

Vaccines meeting to go on in wake of ACIP demolition

June 10, 2025
By Mari Serebrov
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Despite the June 9 gutting of the U.S. CDC’s Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, the Department of Health and Human Services said the committee’s June 25-27 meeting will continue as scheduled. But a new panel has yet to be named, and typically ACIP members have a lot of behind-the-scenes work to do before a meeting.
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Canceling claims not an appropriate sanction, USPTO says

June 9, 2025
By Mari Serebrov
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Absent extraordinary circumstances, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board “should never cancel claims it has not determined to be unpatentable as a sanction” for misconduct during a board proceeding, according to the acting director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Vaxxas HD-MAP administration

Microneedles could solve vaccine distribution challenges

June 6, 2025
By Tamra Sami
Microneedle technology could help simplify vaccine delivery to better support global immunization efforts, and Australia is leading the way in this innovative technology.
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Phase HPV urine test

Phase Scientific raises $34M series A to advance urine-based diagnostics

May 20, 2025
By Tamra Sami
Phase Scientific International Ltd. raised $34 million in a series A round to accelerate research and development of its early disease detection technology for multiple cancers, women's health issues, and infectious diseases.
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Zip p2 platform

Zip Diagnostics develops first rapid POC test for scabies

May 16, 2025
By Tamra Sami
Zip Diagnostics Pty Ltd., Menzies School of Health Research and Axxin Pty Ltd., a Melbourne, Australia-based diagnostic instrumentation manufacturer, partnered to develop a rapid diagnostic test for scabies, a skin parasite that affects more than 200 million people each year.
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