It's officially flu season. You've been invited to a get-together with friends and would love to attend, but have been ...

The Madrid capital region is pressing the Spanish government to allow pharmacies to carry out mass antigen testing for COVID-19, tapping into a broad debate on the efficiency of the rapid tests.

Over a million Slovaks took a coronavirus swab on Saturday as the country launched a huge logistical operation to test most of its population over the weekend to reverse a rise in the pandemic.

Many respiratory viruses ... can cause cold-like symptoms,” health officials say, but some are more dangerous than others.

Have you ever experienced the sudden onset of a cold, fever, cough, and shortness of breath? In most cases, people tend to self-diagnose these symptoms as the flu. Yet unbeknownst to many, these signs ...

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Experts urge people to watch for red-flag symptoms like breathlessness and chest pain, seek early medical help, and follow ...

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New Delhi: Tuberculosis (TB) testing may soon become much simpler, with researchers suggesting that a painless tongue swab could replace the currently used sputum-based methods. A recent study has ...

The CRISPR-based TB test can be administered using a simple tongue swab. Credit: New Africa/Shutterstock.com. Researchers at Tulane University in the US have created an improved clustered regularly ...

From the currently used sputum testing, soon tuberculosis screening can be done via a simple tongue swab, according to a study. The potential breakthrough using an enhanced CRISPR-based technology ...