Nasopharyngeal swabs have been used for decades to diagnose respiratory infections, including COVID-19. A trained healthcare professional takes the sample by inserting a long swab through the nose to ...
The civic body has set up 12 swab collection centres and formulated a standard operating procedure (SoP) keeping in view the rising Influenza A cases. Image used for representational purpose only PUNE ...
The combined technologies could reduce labor and time required for COVID-19 diagnostic testing 10-fold, and facilitate future diagnostic testing of other respiratory diseases. BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)- ...
A study undertaken by the city-based KEM Hospital Research Centre has found that severe distress increased from 22% in infants aged 18 weeks to 61% in babies aged 10 months after undergoing ...
The process of swab sample collection to test for Covid-19 does not take more than 30 to 40 seconds, but it is a “high risk job”, says Dr Pushkar Dahiwal who works at a government hospital in ...
Given the urgent need for an alternative tuberculosis test, Tiyese Jeranji looks at the potential of a new experimental oral swab. The World Health Organization estimates that every year 40% of people ...
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Massachusetts-based startup Rhinostics announced today that the University's ...