A HORRIFIED mum realised there a “rotting” swab lodged inside her body after complaining to hospital staff about a foul smell ...

The PCR-based point-of-care assays, which return results within 20 minutes, have received regulatory approval from the US Food and Drug Administration earlier this year.

Self-collected testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) appears to be acceptable to adolescents and young adults, ...

Researchers report that the type of tissue samples used is crucial when assessing a person’s biological age, which reflects ...

Scientists have developed methods to estimate biological age, but a recent study led by Abner Apsley, a doctoral candidate at ...

At-home rapid tests for COVID-19 and influenza are becoming available, allowing simultaneous diagnosis, which aids timely and effective treatment and improves patient outcomes.

To find out what having the test is really like for first timers ... They involve doing a vaginal swab which is then sent to a lab. The NHS said last year it was assessing whether to roll the ...

A thyroglobulin antibody (TgAb) test looks ... with an alcohol swab. Once cleaned, they will insert a sterile needle into a vein and draw a small amount of blood into a tube or vial.

In the days after the carcass was found, researchers took swabs of the bite wounds on the shark to test for killer whale DNA. The results of that testing, published in the journal Ecology and ...