There are roughly 225,000 new cases of lung cancer every year in the United States. Early diagnosis and treatment play a large role in improving outcomes. A recently developed nasal swab test could ...

Diagnosing precisely what type of asthma a child has and fine-tuning the treatment for it involves an invasive procedure under general anesthesia. For children with mild asthma, it's just not worth ...

People who persistently carry Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) in their nose have fewer species of other bacteria, while ...

Not sure what's causing your child's asthma? A new quick-and-easy nasal swab test for kids can diagnose the specific immune system drivers behind their asthma, potentially opening the door to better ...

COVID-19 cases in the U.S. are at record numbers, fueled by the spread of the omicron variant. The country’s daily test volume has risen in tandem, and is now at its highest compared to any other ...

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veracyte, Inc. (Nasdaq: VCYT) announced today that new, expanded data demonstrating the performance of the company’s non-invasive Percepta Nasal Swab test ...

The scientists swabbed over 1,000 healthy donors to study the interactions between the bacterial populations present in the nasal passages.

In a recent study posted to the Research Square* pre-print server, a team of researchers from Italy and the United States (US) retrospectively reviewed and compared viral load in severe acute ...