During phase 2 (12 months), all patients admitted to ICUs were assessed for nasal MRSA carriage using PCR-based testing. Contact precautions were instituted for colonized patients, but ...

And one of her go-to products is the Zicam nasal swab! "I travel all the time and I try not to get sick," Watson said. "You literally put this up your nose and it stops you from getting sick." ...

The idea you could access the blood-brain barrier through a swab up the nose is a complete misunderstanding of what it is and how it works. The brain has lots of layers of protection. First and ...

Often called “rapid tests” or “home Covid tests,” these tests rely on a nasal swab to detect active infections within about 15 minutes. They can be a valuable tool for managing life with ...

A 49-year-old man with intellectual disability was admitted to the hospital for treatment of persisting epistaxis following routine collection of a nasopharyngeal swab specimen for SARS-CoV-2 ...

The U.S. government reopened the program on Thursday, allowing any household to order up to four at-home COVID nasal swab kits through the website, covidtests.gov. The tests will begin shipping ...

Tally Health’s CheekAge is a noninvasive cheek swab. Getty Images Most biochemical tests that predict a person’s biological age rely on blood DNA, but Tally Health’s CheekAge is a ...

The most cost-effective strategies to control MRSA spread in NICUs are still the subject of debate, but surveillance is consistently accepted as an indispensable tool to customize them and to ...

As a result, you might experience the following symptoms: The bacteria that cause staph infections, S. aureus, occur in the nasal passages or on the skin, causing no problems in most cases. Infections ...

MRSA: The Spread of Drug Resistance In fact, there is a good chance that the staph infection you picked up from that contaminated doorknob is already antibiotic resistant. Most staph infections in ...

US households will be able to order as many as four nasal swab tests at COVIDTests.gov when the federal program reopens. The US Health and Human Services agency overseeing the program has not yet ...

A 49-year-old man with intellectual disability was admitted to the hospital for treatment of persisting epistaxis following routine collection of a nasopharyngeal swab specimen for SARS-CoV-2 ...