Analysis

July 6, 2020

No doctor required

Are home-testing healthcare startups ready to push beyond the worried well, and could COVID-19 help them do it?


Swedish startup Capitainer's blood testing solution

Self-administered pregnancy kits have long been a staple of modern medicine, but blood, urine and other tests that can be done at home, by non-professionals, are increasingly spreading into other areas of diagnosis.

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