MPV tends to hit hardest in young children, older adults and people with weakened immune systems. A virologist explains.

Cervical cancer (cancer of the cervix) is preventable and curable, only if it is detected early and managed effectively. Yet it is the 4th most common cancer among women worldwide, with the disease ...

India has witnessed a surge in Covid cases once again. Most of them have been attributed to JN.1, a sub-lineage of the Omicron variant, whic ...

This involves inserting a tube down a child's throat to collect fluids from the stomach ... when samples are collected, the type of swab used, and time between collection and processing. This will ...

Led by Ph.D. candidate Sophie Miller in the College of Medicine and Public Health, the study found that a simple swab from the back of the throat ... involved the collection of oropharyngeal ...

Led by PhD candidate Sophie Miller in the College of Medicine and Public Health, the study found that a simple swab from the back of the throat ... involved the collection of oropharyngeal ...

The swab collection kit market encompasses a range of products designed for collecting samples from the throat, nasal cavity, or other areas of the body. These kits typically include sterile swabs, ...

Throat culture. The doctor will rub a swab over the throat and tonsils to ... or blood A peritonsillar abscess — a collection of pus around the tonsils or behind the throat that can be extremely ...

Self-collection of throat specimens detected fewer ... 1:1 to self-collected or healthcare worker-collected nasal and throat swab specimens for rapid antigen testing. They had a total of four ...