Results of a South African study in this week's issue of THE LANCET show how a diagnosis of tuberculosis in young children can be confirmed by a straightforward sputum test, rather than the ...

Tulane University researchers have developed an enhanced CRISPR-based tuberculosis test that works with a simple tongue swab, a potential breakthrough that could allow easier, community-based ...

Early and accurate detection is critical for preventing the spread of COVID-19 and providing appropriate care for patients. Nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs, which require inserting a long shaft into the ...

Lung cancer will kill roughly 159,000 people in the United States this year, making it the deadliest malignancy. About 85 percent of patients are diagnosed too late for surgery, and they generally ...

Sputum sampling was found to be a valuable method for diagnosing and monitoring patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), according to a recent systematic review and meta-analysis published ...

The test can be administered on a mouth swab instead of sputum and doesn’t require lab facilities ...

A third sputum test on a man quarantined with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis was negative for the presence of TB bacteria, hospital officials said Tuesday, opening up the possibility that he could ...

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality rate worldwide, mainly because of the presence of metastatic disease at the time of diagnosis. Early detection of lung cancer improves prognosis, ...

A CRISPR mouth-swab test could transform TB screening with rapid, low-cost detection in low-resource and asymptomatic cases.