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Europe raises 7.4B euros for coronavirus response

The fundraising event was held in response to a call for more money to respond to COVID-19 by the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), a body convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) and World Bank Group.

May 4, 2020

WHO steps on the gas for collaboration on treatments and tests

The organization said that heads of state and global health leaders have committed to accelerating the development and production of new vaccines, tests, and treatments for COVID-19. The entire world is at risk as long as the virus threatens any country, the WHO noted. To date, there have been more than 2.4 million cases globally and 160,000 deaths.

April 23, 2020

Clinical laboratory market enjoys steady growth, exceeds $121B

Clinical laboratories are an essential part of the health industry, Kalorama noted. It is estimated that 70% to 80% of diagnoses by physicians result from laboratory tests, and clinical laboratory services are involved in 100% of patient care plans in oncology indications.Source: Kalorama Information.

February 17, 2020

Gestalt touts tie-ups for cancer image workflow

Gestalt markets the PathFlow software platform for managing pathology images in laboratories. MindPeak has a software program for research use only called BreastAI to evaluate breast cancer immunohistochemistry tests. The partners are developing an integrated workflow that allows pathologists to send regions of interest on digital breast cancer images to MindPeak, access AI algorithms quickly, and get annotated results back in real-time. This will result in improved efficiency, with faster turnaround times in labs, according to the companies.

October 6, 2019