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Payvand Laboratpry CoVID-19 Molecular Test; Valid to Provide to Airlines

August 6, 2020

Due to the reopening of the Tehran-UAE flight, passengers who are intending to travel to the UAE by Mahan or Emirates airlines are required to comply with a set of health protocols, including having a CoVID-19 negative test result for the past 96 hours. Accordingly, the Director General of the Reference Laboratory of the Ministry […]

Six distinct ‘types’ of CoVID-19 symptoms identified

July 29, 2020

Analysis of data from the CoVID-19 Symptom Study, led by researchers from King’s College London, reveals that there are six distinct ‘types’ of CoVID-19, each distinguished by a particular cluster of symptoms. According to researchers at King’s College London, these findings have important implications for the clinical management of CoVID-19 patients. The type of symptoms […]

the Interpreting Diagnostic Tests for SARS-CoV-2

June 25, 2020

Recently an article has been published on JAMA (general medical journal) about the Interpreting Diagnostic Tests for SARS-CoV-2. The article outlines how to interpret two of the most commonly used diagnostic tests, Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR), and IgM & IgG Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA); in detecting ‘severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-COV-2)’, in CoVID-19 […]

Men’s Health Week 2020 ‘Take Action on CoVID-19’

June 17, 2020

The year 2020 began differently from other years, early in this year the new coronavirus spread rapidly because of a group of pneumonia cases that spread worldwide, and the World Health Organization (WHO) identified CoVID-19 has been announced as a global pandemic, which stands for coronavirus disease 2019 Efforts to increase men’s awareness of health […]

Ways to prevent the spread of infection caused by CoVID-19 in Clinical Laboratories

May 17, 2020

These days, the concern of the World Health Organization and many  Health centers  is that the spread of the new Cov-2 coronavirus may be dangerous for healthcare personnel, especially diagnostic laboratory staff. Therefore, the researchers of the COVID-19 Working Group of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Medical Laboratory (IFCC) have published a review […]

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