News: Press Releases

August 12, 2010
PointCare Signs Agreement With Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics to Distribute and Provide Customer Support for the PointCare NOW(TM) System in the Southern and Eastern Regions of Africa
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 signed an exclusive agreement with Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics in South Africa to distribute the PointCare NOW system and provide support to customers in the southern and eastern regions of the continent.
 
February 22, 2010
New AIMBE Fellows from ISAC
 
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.