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FDA greenlights first Covid-19 test with at-home sample collection

Regulators at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized the first coronavirus test that lets people collect a sample at home. “Throughout this pandemic we have been facilitating test ...
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 ...
Pharmabiz

NABL issues Guidance document for medical labs to ensure quality of test samples at collection centres

The National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) has issued Guidance document for medical laboratories to ensure quality at the collection centres. The document ...
standardmedia.co.ke

Self-collection sample test replacing pap smear for cervical cancer screening

Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women in Kenya after breast cancer and fourth globally. [iStockphoto] An ongoing medical camp in Kisii County has so far detected the ...
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Concordance in HPV Detection Between Self-Collected and Health Provider–Collected Cervicovaginal Samples Using careHPV in Tanzanian Women

Urban Poor Community Settings' Knowledge and Screening Practices for Cervical Cancer in Ibadan, Nigeria Overall, 464 women participated in the study. The high-risk HPV prevalence was 19.0% (95% CI, 15 ...
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Improving the Sensitivity-Specificity Balance of Human Papillomavirus Testing on Self- and Clinician-Collected Samples in South Africa

Women living with and without HIV, age 30-65 years, were recruited in South Africa. Self-collected vaginal samples and clinician-collected cervical samples were tested with Xpert HPV, an assay that ...