By late February, a 6-year-old unvaccinated girl died of measles-related pneumonia — the first U.S. measles death since 2015 ...

The US Food and Drug Administration granted clearances for testing instruments, a blood clot drug companion diagnostic test, and infectious disease tests, among other devices.

Although Africa has been qualified as having an unsatisfactory level of diagnosis in the face of this pandemic, our laboratory has nevertheless been able to carry out a large number of screening tests ...

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Background Infectious agents such as SARS-CoV-2 require strategies to contain outbreaks, particularly in hospitals where the spread of infection is most likely. Biometric monitoring of heart rate, ...

6 DNA amplification tests, including polymerase chain reaction (PCR) are also considered definitive, as they detect specific sequences of T. pallidum. In a recent meta-analysis, the specificity of PCR ...

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WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran on Sunday with bombing and secondary tariffs if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear ...

Lara’s grandfather had told him stories as a child about his Indigenous heritage, but Lara, 75, was not aware of his connection to the Pacific Northwest until he sent a cheek swab to Ancestry.com.

PARIS, March 29 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has ordered some French companies with U.S. government contracts to comply with his executive order banning diversity, equity, and inclusion ...

Once a promising company briefly valued at $6 billion, 23andMe popularized at-home DNA test kits and spawned a cottage industry of ancestry hunters and true crime sleuths. But the company could ...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a swab test was also conducted, and her body was kept for one to two days pending the results. Once the COVID test returned negative, an autopsy was performed at ...