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May 13, 2009 | The PointCare NOW featured live on SCI-TECH Today from the Museum of Science in Boston, MA The SCI-TECH Today television show on the New England Cable News Channel featured the PointCare NOW in their segment about nanotechnology and the fight against AIDS. |
April 14, 2009 | PointCare exhibits at Grameen Competition of the World Health Care Congress PointCare participated in the “Extremely Affordable Health Innovations” Poster Session organized by Grameen Health and hosted by the 6th Annual World Health Care Congress on April 14-16 in Washington D.C. The session was hosted by Professor Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Laureate. |
April 12, 2009 | BBC Reports on Ugandan Hospital Using the PointCare NOW for Mobile HIV/AIDS Services Dr. Paul Williams, formerly a GP in North-East England, has transformed a tiny and very basic health centre on the edge of the Impenetrable Forest of Uganda into an efficient community hospital. Thanks to a small but important piece of equipment, the PointCare NOW Instrument, Dr Williams' medical team has been able to monitor the health of patients with HIV from a clinic that fits into the back of their four-wheel-drive "community ambulance". |
December 03, 2008 | PointCare Releases New Generation of Quality Controls PointCare Technologies, pioneer inventor of a portable diagnostic system that enables effective HIV/AIDS monitoring for millions of people in remote areas of developing countries, has increased that technology’s effectiveness with the development of external quality controls that do not require cold chain or refrigeration. The controls called “Daily Check,” are stable for at least six months under the demanding conditions found in many low-resource settings of the developing world. |
| December 03, 2008 | PointCare a mis au Point une nouvelle Génération de Contrôles Qualité PointCare Technologies, inventeur pionnier d'un système de diagnostic portable qui permet un suivi effectif du VIH/SIDA pour des millions de personnes dans les zones reculées des pays en voie de développement, a amélioré l'efficacité de cette technologie avec le développement de contrôles qualité externes qui ne nécessitent pas de chaîne de froid ou de réfrigération. Les contrôles appelés “Daily Checks,” sont stables pour |
| July 01, 2008 | PointCare uses World Bank grant to establish CD4/CD4% testing in Malawi PointCare Technologies, one of America’s leading companies providing diagnostic solutions in the worldwide effort to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS, has received a World Bank grant to bring CD4/CD4% testing to rural Malawi. |
| June 30, 2008 | PointCare NOW: Reports from the Field PointCare Technologies, one of America’s leading companies providing diagnostic solutions in the worldwide effort to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS, is bringing critical CD4/CD4% diagnostics to under-served populations in Africa. |
| June 15, 2008 | FDA approval for PointCare NOW PointCare Technologies received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on January 14, 2008 for the PointCare NOW System. |
| June 01, 2008 | PointCare Technologies Announces the PointCare NOW, Bringing HIV/AIDS Diagnostics to the People PointCare Technologies has developed a compact, robust, automated and portable diagnostics instrument platform called the PointCare NOW. |
| April 24, 2008 | Brook Venture Fund II Leads $3.6M Investment In PointCare Technologies, Inc. Funds Will Scale PointCare Sales & Marketing Activities |
June 19, 2007 | PointCare Technologies featured in Worcester Telegram and Gazette When Petra B. Krauledat and husband W. Peter Hansen, fresh from selling a scientific equipment company, pondered whether to jump back into business with a venture aimed at developing affordable blood-testing equipment for HIV patients in poor countries, they paused. |
May 26, 2007 | PointCare Wins World Bank Development Marketplace Competition and Funding to Establish CD4 Testing in Rural Settings A proposal from PointCare Technologies Inc., which makes a hematology device used for managing anti-retroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS patients, was one of the 22 winners selected this week in the World Bank Development Marketplace. |
November 15, 2006 | PointCare's Night Among the Stars: PointCare Technologies Wins Award as well as Nod from Bill Gates PointCare’s Technology Wins Award As Well as Nod from Bill Gates |
| September 21, 2006 | Pointcare Honored as 2006 Tech Museum Awards Laureate The Tech Museum of Innovation, one of the country’s leading science and technology museums, today named PointCare Technologies a 2006 Tech Museum Awards Laureate. |
| September 03, 2006 | PointCare Technologies attends the 3rd annual CCAS Caribbean International HIV Workshop PointCare Technologies attended the 3rd annual CCAS Caribbean International HIV Workshop in Barbados, where we exhibited our AuRICA™ NOW Immuno-hematology analyzer. |
| August 13, 2006 | PointCare Technologies unveils its new product the AuRICA™ NOW PointCare Technologies unveils its new product the AuRICA™ NOW immunology-hematology analyzer at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto |
| May 20, 2005 | PointCare Wins 2005 New England Innovation Award Firm Cited For Breakthrough HIV/AIDS Testing Unit |