Spontaneous or induced sputum was collected after having the subjects swish sterile ... Bacterial taxonomic analyses and comparisons between both groups by the Wilcoxon rank-sum test were conducted at ...

Methods Induced sputum (n=47), bronchial lavage (n=23) and endobronchial biopsies (n=40) were collected from participants with asthma with varying disease severity, inflammatory phenotypes and from ...

While you can get tested at a doctor’s office or a clinic, if you’re concerned about a specific STD, a home test may be a quicker and cheaper way to get results. Testing for STIs at home is ...

When Kim Kardashian posted on Instagram about having had a full-body MRI, she enthused that the test can be “life saving”, detecting diseases in the earliest stages before symptoms arise.

New research examined nearly 1,000 posts on tests for fertility, testosterone levels and cancer risk. By Dani Blum The post looked simple enough: Kim Kardashian, hair pulled back in a ponytail ...

A simple blood test to detect how fast internal organs are ageing helped flag increased risks for 30 diseases including lung cancer and cardiovascular conditions, researchers have found.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Tesla has released footage from its Cybertruck crash test back in 2023, where the team says it's the safest pickup truck on the market – well, we’ll see about that. Tesla’s Cybertruck is possibly the ...

Recently developed isothermal nucleic acid amplification tests (iNAAT), antigen and/or serological tests are cost-effective to scale COVID-19 testing at the point-of-care (PoC) and for surveillance ...

Many surgeons order routine lab tests before you are admitted to the hospital or before certain outpatient procedures. The tests help find possible problems that might complicate surgery if not found ...