Simon Fraser University

FHS grad students evaluate COVID-19 swab collection techniques to improve patient diagnostic experience

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 ...
Indiatimes

12 swab collection hubs in Pune for H3N2

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 ...
Pharmabiz

SpiceHealth to use dry-swab procedure in its mobile COVID-19 testing laboratories

The SpiceHealth has for the first time launched mobile COVID-19 testing laboratory using the new dry swab testing procedure developed by the scientists of Council for Scientific Industrial ...
Business Wire

Harvard University licenses its nasal swab collection technology, developed at the Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School, to Mass. startup Rhinostics

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)- ...
Indiatimes

Pune: Swab testing leads to substantial distress in babies, says study

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 ...