Author: Dan Higgins, RGN, ENB 100, ENB 998, is senior charge nurse in critical care, University Hospital Birmingham. Collecting a specimen is often a first crucial step in determining diagnosis and ...

BEIJING, Dec. 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Shineco, Inc.(“Shineco” or the “Company”; NASDAQ: SISI), a producer and distributor of Chinese herbal medicines, organic agricultural and other biotech ...

Matching blood or stool samples to a reference database of foods can reveal how much of our body chemistry is traceable to what we exactly eat, reports a new study. An international team of scientists ...

Most tuberculosis (TB) testing today relies on sputum samples coughed up from the lungs. This makes intuitive sense since pulmonary (or lung) TB is the most common form of TB and sputum provides ...

A search of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency website revealed no manufacturer Field Safety Notices or Medical Device Alerts for this device. No reports of adverse events were ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

"For a long time," says De Haas, "stool was considered a difficult sample for diagnosing bacterial diseases, as it contains a lot of other bacteria and organic material which interfere with diagnostic ...

Biospecimens from both healthy and diagnosed human subjects are key sources of information used throughout diagnostic and therapeutic development. Traditionally, these samples are sourced directly ...

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