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Albania: Privatisation of hospital lab services has negatively impacted Covid-19 research and response, critics say Canva Albanian Doctors Fret over Private Control of Hospital Labs, 5 January 2021 A 2019 government deal with a private venture to improve lab services in Albania ended up complicating efforts to expand COVID-19 testing, critics say, and is causing concern over the long-term impact on publicly-funded diagnostics and scientific research. Since November, when administration of the immunology laboratory passed to a private company under a deal with the Albanian government ... [Doct...

Head of Department, Surveillance and Epidemiology, Elsie Ilori Photo: Twitter The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Nigeria surpassed 100,000 on Jan.10 after 1,024 new cases were reported, bringing the total number of infections to 100,087. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed on its verified website on Sunday. The NCDC regrettably reported eight additional COVID-19-related deaths in the last 24 hours in the country. x The agency said the total number of deaths was now 1,358 and the case fatality rate was 1.5 per cent in the countr...

The public health agency said that the country’s active cases were 18,699, while only two states, Kogi and Cross River, had no active case of the infection as at Jan. 10.

As the year 2020 gradually comes to an end, Onyebuchi Ezigbo captures some of the key events that shaped this highly eventful and turbulent year, especially in the health sector The year, 2020 will no doubt go down in world history as one of the most remarkable in recent times. It is a year that challenged every of mankind’s ingenuinety and technological prowers. It is a year that the whole world was literally brought to its kneels by a novel virus named COVID-19, which has remained incurable at least for now. It took everyone by storm, not even the world powers saw it coming nor were they...

Share this article Share this article NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Concert Genetics today unveiled the Concert Genetics Benefit Program, an end-to-end genetic testing management solution that enables health plans to provide members with access to high-quality, clinically appropriate genetic testing while improving payment integrity and reducing manual work. This solution comes as the volume of genetic testing continues to rise, and as biomarkers increasingly influence clinical decisions, quality and cost of care. The unique challenges of genetic testing – rapidly innovati...