Business Wire

Labcorp Now Offers Observed Collection for COVID-19 PCR Testing in Over 500 Locations Nationwide, With Plans to Expand to More Than 1,000 Locations

BURLINGTON, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Labcorp (NYSE: LH), a global life sciences company, is now offering observed self-collection for COVID-19 PCR testing in more than 500 of its patient service centers ...
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 ...
Business Wire

PerkinElmer SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Assay Receives CE Mark for Saliva and Sample Pooling to Test Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Individuals

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PerkinElmer, Inc. announced today that its PerkinElmer ® SARS-CoV-2 Real-time RT-PCR Assay received CE-IVD marking for the use of saliva as specimen type and the ...
Business Insider

DoorDash Launches On-Demand Delivery of COVID-19 PCR Test Collection Kits Through Partnerships with Vault Health and Everlywell

SAN FRANCISCO, March 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- DoorDash, the nation's leading on-demand local logistics platform, announced today that it will begin facilitating same-day delivery of COVID-19 PCR test ...
Nasdaq

FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization for Home Collection Kit for Advanta Dx SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Assay

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fluidigm Corporation (Nasdaq:FLDM), an innovative biotechnology tools provider with a vision to improve life through comprehensive ...
iaea.org

Sample Collection and Preparation for RT-PCR

The second session of the ‘IAEA and WPRO Webinar Series to Support the COVID-19 Testing Laboratories in the Asia and the Pacific Region’, provides information on the proper sampling, sample packing, ...