A partnership between the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a medical device startup could result in the creation of a rapid test for bacterial meningitis, according to a UAB News report.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A test has been developed that could help diagnose bacterial infections including meningitis in minutes, but it could take several years before a cheap testing ...

The FDA approved a DNA screening test of cerebrospinal fluid that can tell a physician in under an hour if a patient has viral or bacterial meningitis. If you are familiar with the differences between ...

Researchers at Amsterdam UMC have developed a new diagnostic test that can quickly and accurately diagnose bacterial meningitis. The test measures the CRP protein in cerebrospinal fluid, a protein ...

Clinicians at an A&E department in Northern Ireland are to start using a new test that rapidly detects meningitis, potentially speeding up diagnosis and saving lives. Credit: Ezume Images/Shutterstock ...

Nelesh P. Govender currently receives funding from the National Institutes of Health and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. South Africa has launched the world’s largest national screening ...

It was an eventful Veterans Day matchup for the Ducks on Nov. 11 as they beat the Grand Canyon University Antelopes 84-66. In the first game... “I guess that’s what they call Big Ten football,” Oregon ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HiberGene Diagnostics, a company focused on the application of molecular technology to infectious disease testing, has completed CE marking of its first test, HG Meningococcus ...

Over a million people each year, most of them in the "meningitis belt" in Africa, contract bacterial meningitis, a potentially deadly infection of tissues that line the brain and spinal cord. The ...

Right now, neurologists don’t have one test that can identify multiple causes of inflammatory neurological diseases such as encephalitis and meningitis. But UC San Francisco researchers say their new ...

Dr. Randolph Chang, medical director of three Illinois clinics that used a possibly tainted steroid medication, says four patients received follow-up tests for meningitis and the results came back ...