In a study involving nasal swab samples from 283 people, the authors of the new paper were able to predict who would end up hospitalized with about 84 to 88 percent accuracy.

A new nasal swab test may allow doctors to diagnose asthma subtypes in children without using an invasive procedure requiring general anesthesia. The test, developed by University of Pittsburgh ...

Large-scale study by Hokkaido University finds simple saliva test just as reliable as gold-standard, more complicated and expensive PCR nasal swab method.

Los Angeles County is providing thousands of coronavirus self-testing kits to its citizens, but public health officials are leery of the shortage of data on whether this easier method ― in which an ...

The nasal swab analysis was able to identify each patient’s endotype. Now, this work could help improve treatments for the various types of asthma, or help advance asthma research. “We have better ...

A small, preliminary study suggests there may be a new method for testing COVID-19. The new method uses a skin swab to detect levels of the new coronavirus.

(Nasdaq: VCYT), a leading cancer diagnostics company, today announced it has met its targeted enrollment for the NIGHTINGALE trial, which aims to evaluate the clinical utility of its Percepta Nasal ...

Many who’ve had a nasal Covid-19 test performed on themselves have described it as feeling like that swab got as far back as their brains.

A rare case of cerebrospinal fluid leak occurred after a tester inadvertently swabbed a previously unidentified encephalocele during nasal swab testing for COVID-19.