The expertise of ear, nose, and throat specialists (or otolaryngologists ... Every day, millions of Americans use cotton swabs to clean their ears. However, cotton swabs can push earwax further into ...

Current asthma tests can only detect one type of the lung disease, but an experimental nasal swab has demonstrated the ability to differentiate between various asthma types. The disease ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a nasal swab test for children and youth that helps clinicians diagnose specific asthma subtypes, or endotypes, using nasal epithelial ...

As expected, analysis of nasal swab samples revealed a patient's endotype. Across studies, 23% to 29% of participants had T2 high, 35% to 47% had T17-high and 30% to 38% had low-low endotype.

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Bengaluru: Using nasal swabs to identify a child's asthma subtype may lead to more precise medication prescribing and development of better treatments for what have been harder to diagnose types ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a new nasal swab test that identifies specific asthma subtypes in kids, which can lead to more accurate diagnoses and better treatment ...

Not sure what's causing your child's asthma? A new quick-and-easy nasal swab test for kids can diagnose the specific immune system drivers behind their asthma, potentially opening the door to ...