Environmental sampling finds more poultry viruses than bird swabs in live markets

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have found that viruses circulating in live poultry markets can be detected more ...
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YSPH reports saliva test shows promise for tuberculosis detection

Led by YSPH and partners at CIDEIM at Icesi University, the research team conducted the study in Cali, Colombia.
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Geisinger expands access to cervical cancer screenings

DANVILLE — Geisinger announced it will begin offering an FDA-approved self-collected swab sampling option for cervical cancer screening that does not require a pelvic examination. This initiative ...
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Home-based self-sampling vaginal swab preferred by 80% of patients

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. NEW ORLEANS — A novel home-based self-sampling vaginal ...

Bird Flu Surveillance Just Got Smarter: Why Testing the Air Beats Testing the Birds

Scientists have discovered that testing the environment of live poultry markets is an effective way to identify avian ...
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Vaginal swabs preferred over urine samples for chlamydia, gonorrhea testing

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with urine samples, vaginal swabs had significantly greater sensitivity for chlamydia and gonorrhea.

Could a nasal swab help detect Alzheimer’s earlier? Duke researchers think so

A new Duke study is exploring whether cells inside the nose could reveal early signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers say ...
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ASSESSMENT OF A LANCET-AND-SWAB BLOOD SAMPLING TECHNIQUE FOR SURVEILLANCE OF ELEPHANT ENDOTHELIOTROPIC HERPESVIRUS INFECTION

Lancing a finger elicits minimal pain in humans and is applied routinely to obtain small volumes of blood for clinical diagnostics. A modified lancet bleeding method and several blood sampling ...