The nasal swab accurately determined each child’s asthma subtype, providing a much-needed alternative to invasive lung tissue sampling. This new test has significant implications for asthma ...

Current asthma tests can only detect one type of the lung disease, but an experimental nasal swab has demonstrated the ability to differentiate between various asthma types. The disease ...

The genomic testing of traveler’s nasal swabs has mainly been focused on ... Health officials also have been sampling wastewater that comes off international flights at a few airports.

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Several employees of a pharmaceutical company have been arrested in Indonesia for allegedly washing and reselling used Covid nasal swab test kits. Up to 9,000 passengers at an airport in Medan may ...

A recent study published in the journal JAMA reveals that researchers have developed a nasal swab test for children that can help diagnose certain asthma subtype or endotype. The study conducted ...

Female doctor using cotton swab while PCR testing small boy at rapid COVID-19 test at home. A rapid nasal swab test can diagnose a child’s asthma subtype The test looks for eight genetic markers ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a new nasal swab test that identifies specific asthma subtypes in kids, which can lead to more accurate diagnoses and better treatment ...