Swabs and cleaning sticks feature small wads of nonwoven, cotton, microfiber or foam wrapped around either one or both ends of a short wood, paper, plastic rod, or tube. The material at the tip ...

A clear or white discharge from the penis (urethral discharge) is a common problem. To find out why there is discharge from ...

We have not seen any complications from Covid swabs in our neurology practice", says Dr Liz Coulthard, a committee member of the British Neuroscience Association (BNA). The nasopharyngeal swab ...

And that includes Q-Tips and cotton swabs. The cotton swabs that most of us use to clean wax out of our ears are a lot more harmful than helpful. When you put a Q-tip in your ear, it actually ends ...

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.

The researchers from The University of Manchester used cotton swabs to sample people and identify the compounds present with mass spectrometry. The method developed involves paper spray ionisation ...

Emory and University of California San Francisco researchers developed diagnostic technology to test for the antibodies in nasal swabs for the disease, like those found in over-the-counter tests.