The test can be used to detect HDV infection, a particularly dangerous coinfection that can occur with hepatitis B virus.

Medicare lab spending totaled $8.4 billion in 2024, up 5 percent year over year, with $3.6 billion of that spent on genetic testing, an increase of 20 percent over 2023.

The firm attributed the increase in part to life sciences and diagnostics revenue that was better than expected.

The company is the first commercial lab in the US to agree to implement the system, which it will begin using in the first quarter of the year.

The firm attributed the increase in part to life sciences and diagnostics revenue that was better than expected.

The test detects Borrelia bacteria directly from skin interstitial fluid samples from people with signs of tick bites or erythema migrans.

The approach uses an iteration of the SHERLOCK technology exclusively licensed to OraSure Technologies' subsidiary, Sherlock Biosciences.

Meridian Bioscience subsidiary Magellan Diagnostics was previously ordered to pay $42 million for selling the tests.

The researchers studied volatile organic compounds in the breath and determined some may have diagnostic utility for issues in the gut microbiome, as well as for asthma.

The researchers studied volatile organic compounds in the breath and determined some may have diagnostic utility for issues in the gut microbiome, as well as for asthma.