Many people use Q-Tips brand cotton swabs as tool to remove excess ear wax from inside the ear canal, but the Q-Tips box clearly says that the swabs should not be used for this purpose.

That's a breakthrough women could soon see with the Teal Wand, an at-home vaginal swab tool that Teal Health has submitted for FDA approval through an accelerated review process. "Medical research ...

Newly published research in JAMA presents an alternative: a nasal swab test that researchers say accurately diagnoses a child’s asthma subtype. Researchers used the new tests in three studies of ...

A simple new nasal swab is able to diagnose asthma in children ... so doctors have had to rely on imperfect tools, including immune markers in the blood, lung function and whether or not they ...