This World TB Day, we have new rapid near-point-of-care molecular tests being deployed. These use tongue swabs to help end TB ...

More than 10 million people develop tuberculosis (TB) each year, yet about 40% go undiagnosed. The main culprit is reliance on sputum-based testing, which many patients—particularly those who are ...

As Americans scramble for at-home tests to find out if they’re infected with COVID-19, some experts are suggesting they should swab their throat, in addition to their nose, to better detect the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EVERGREEN PARK, IL — Free, COVID-19 testing will be offered Friday in Evergreen Park. Mouth-swab tests will take place from 9 a.m.

Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle have developed a new approach that may help diagnose tuberculosis using oral swabs. The oral swab approach — which was inspired by veterinary ...

In the early days of the pandemic, with commercial COVID tests in short supply, Rockefeller University's Robert B. Darnell developed an in-house assay to identify positive cases within the Rockefeller ...