The gold standard for detecting the presence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay that is conducted ...

WE'RE STILL WAITING on flying cars, robot butlers, and other futuristic inventions, but Costco just introduced an innovation that could prove to be the future of in-store samples. A recent TikTok ...

Women who self-screened for high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) had similar test results to those who were screened by a clinician, according to a study published in BMJ. A research team assessed ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* server, a team of researchers evaluated the performance of monkeypox virus (MPXV)-infected patients' self-collected versus physician-collected clinical samples ...

While a number of companies who currently offer at-home medical and health diagnostics had rushed to produce kits that would allow for self sample collection by people who passed a screening and ...

Self-collected sample agreement of 95% with clinician-collected samples, surpassing the threshold for equivalency, set at 87%. High usability, with 99% reporting no difficulty, 92% completed ...

(CNN) — Instead of a traditional speculum-involved pelvic exam to screen for cervical cancer, the US Food and Drug Administration has given the go-ahead for patients to have the option to collect ...