MobiHealthNews

First COVID-19 diagnostic test authorized for home sample collection

Thanks to an updated emergency use authorization (EUA) from the FDA, LabCorp's COVID-19 RT-PCR test is now the first diagnostic test for COVID-19 that permits at-home sample collection. Now, patients ...
MobiHealthNews

First home-collected saliva sample kit for COVID-19 testing gets FDA nod

Just a few hours ago the FDA greenlighted the first home-collected saliva sample for COVID-19. Rutgers Clinical Genomics Laboratory, which already landed an EUA in mid-April for its test, can now ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

FDA Authorizes At-Home Sample Collection Kit for Use With Multiple COVID-19 Diagnostics

The kit will be available only by prescription to individuals who have been screened using an online questionnaire that is reviewed by a healthcare provider. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ...
Scientific American

At-Home Coronavirus-Sample-Collection Kits Aren’t Perfect but Could Help Fill Testing Gap

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the first at-home collection kits for novel coronavirus testing this week. The kits, made by the Burlington, N. C.–based company LabCorp, allow ...
Business Wire

Rhinostics and Nexus Medical Labs Announce Partnership to Launch Rapid, Cost-Efficient Swab Sample Processing for Telehealth and Broader Industries

Increased Sample Throughput and Consistency in COVID-19 and Other Swab-Based Tests is Supported through Use of the Novel RHINOstic™ Automated Nasal Swab WALTHAM, Mass. & WATERTOWN, Mass.--(BUSINESS ...
BioTechniques

SafeCollect: at home sample collection simplified

With the rise of telemedicine, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for the general public to be able to safely and successfully collect samples for testing has been highlighted. To meet ...
CNN

New Covid-19 test allows patients to collect samples at home, send to lab for results

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, a new Covid-19 test has been authorized by the US Food and Drug Administration. The new test allows for patients to collect their own samples using Pixel by ...
Healio

FDA authorizes first at-home test collection kit for COVID-19

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. The FDA authorized the first COVID-19 diagnostic test ...
Business Wire

Sengenics Launches SEROMAX, an At-Home, Antibody Sample Collection Kit That Will Revolutionise Patient Recruitment and Monitoring in Clinical Trials

SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sengenics, the Functional Proteomics Company, today announced the launch of SEROMAX, a sample collection kit which only requires a pin-prick amount of blood for quantifying ...
TechCrunch

Updated FDA COVID-19 testing guidelines specifically disallow at-home sample collection

While a number of companies who currently offer at-home medical and health diagnostics had rushed to produce kits that would allow for self sample collection by people who passed a screening and ...