Bruce Japsen writes about healthcare business and policy. Abbott Laboratories new rapid test for the Coronavirus strain Covid-19 should expand much-needed access and help fill in gaps where U.S ...

The guidance from Abbott Laboratories comes more than two weeks after President Donald Trump said in a Rose Garden news conference that the company’s rapid coronavirus test would be “a whole ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized the first rapid coronavirus test that doesn't need any special computer equipment to get results. The 15-minute test from Abbott ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bruce Japsen writes about healthcare business and policy. Abbott Laboratories won Food and Drug Administration emergency ...

Employees at Abbott Laboratories, which makes rapid COVID-19 tests, were instructed in June and July to start destroying BinaxNOW test materials amid declining sales, The New York Times reported.

“I am very, very excited about the development of this rapid Abbott test that’s coming out, he said Monday during his daily COVID-19 briefing. “If we can produce enough of those, we can make ...

A rapid coronavirus diagnostic test manufactured by Abbott may miss nearly half of all positive infections, according to a pre-published study from New York University. The analysis of Abbott’s ...

Shortly after Abbott completed its delivery of 150 million rapid antigen tests to ... the researchers found the antigen test correctly spotted 35.8% of COVID-19 infections among people who did ...

North suburban-based Abbott makes the once popular rapid, at-home COVID-19 test BinaxNOW. From April through June, Abbott sold $263 million worth of COVID-19 tests, compared with $2.3 billion ...

Abbott said that an ongoing multisite clinical study indicated that its rapid COVID-19 test was accurate when detecting the virus nearly 95% of the time. Abbott said that an ongoing multisite ...

A rapid coronavirus test, used on White House officials ... They found that the rapid Abbott test produced 48 percent false negative tests when the nasal swab used for the virus sample was ...

WASHINGTON -- The head of the Food and Drug Administration said Friday his agency has provided new guidance to the White House after data suggested that a rapid COVID-19 test used by President ...