The Johns Hopkins University s Coronavirus Resource Center is launching the Pandemic Data Initiative as a new resource to spotlight systemic deficiencies in the collecting and reporting of pandemic data, to examine how those challenges hinder COVID-19 responses, and to explore possible solutions to improve public data.
Since the pandemic s start, Johns Hopkins University experts at the Coronavirus Resource Center had a behind-the-scenes view on how state, federal, and global agencies collected and reported COVID-19 data. Their analyses revealed a troubling truth: In the absence of standards and uniform methods, the states used an uneven patchwork of policies and disjointed reporting that hampered efforts to slow COVID-19 s spread, sowed confusion for policymakers and the public, hindered the ability to target resources to the most vulnerable, and complicated the process of measuring the effectiveness of public health interventions and vaccinations.
Researchers have created an inexpensive portable device and cellphone app to diagnose gonorrhea in less than 15 minutes and determine if a particular strain will respond to frontline antibiotics.
The invention improves on traditional testing in hospital laboratories and clinics, which typically takes up to a week to deliver results time during which patients can unknowingly spread their infections.
“Our portable, inexpensive testing platform has the potential to change the game when it comes to diagnosing and enabling rapid treatment of sexually transmitted infections,” says team leader Tza-Huei Wang, a professor of mechanical engineering and core researcher at the Institute for NanoBioTechnology at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering.
Johns Hopkins develops portable device for rapidly diagnosing STIs
The low-cost device matches the specificity and sensitivity of current hospital tests, and can detect which strains of disease may become resistant to antibiotics
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A Johns Hopkins University-led team has created an inexpensive portable device and cellphone app to diagnose gonorrhea in less than 15 minutes and determine if a particular strain will respond to frontline antibiotics.
The invention improves on traditional testing in hospital laboratories and clinics, which typically takes up to a week to deliver results time during which patients can unknowingly spread their infections. The team s results appear today in
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A Johns Hopkins University-led team has created an inexpensive portable device and cellphone app to diagnose gonorrhea in less than 15 minutes and determine if a particular strain will respond to frontline antibiotics.
The invention improves on traditional testing in hospital laboratories and clinics, which typically takes up to a week to deliver results time during which patients can unknowingly spread their infections. The team s results appear today in
Science Translational Medicine. Our portable, inexpensive testing platform has the potential to change the game when it comes to diagnosing and enabling rapid treatment of sexually transmitted infections, said team leader Tza-Huei Wang, a professor of mechanical engineering and core researcher at the Institute for NanoBioTechnology at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. It ensures that patients are diagnosed on the spot, and treatment can begin immediately, improving clinical outcomes. This will be especi
A new portable device and accompanying app can detect gonorrhoea in less than 15 minutes and determine if an infection will respond to frontline antibiotics, scientists in the US reveal.
The PROMPT system, developed by a team led by Johns Hopkins University, performs a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test on swabs of bodily fluid and uses a Bluetooth connection to display results on a smartphone.
PROMPT improves on traditional testing in hospital laboratories and clinics, which typically takes up to a week to deliver results, by which point people with gonorrhoea may have unknowingly spread their infections.
Gonorrhoea is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by bacteria called Neisseria gonorrhoeae – and can lead to infertility in men and women if untreated.