QuStick Strep A is highly sensitive and has been proven to detect difficult cases that other rapid streptococcal tests may miss. Its enhanced sensitivity is because it requires fewer bacterial ...

The healthcare provider can do a rapid strep test, get the results, and then prescribe the antibiotics. If the test is negative but the healthcare provider still thinks it’s strep, a throat culture ...

However, other rapid tests with similar demands, such as the rapid strep test, have found a place in many physicians' offices. Efforts must therefore be made to overcome barriers to point-of-care ...

Last week, I was about to go on a date, and because I'm severely immunocompromised, we agreed he would take a COVID test using one of my rapid home molecular tests. It was a courtesy—he felt ...

The provider will examine your child, paying close attention to the ears, nose, throat, and tonsils. Depending on your child’s symptoms, the provider may do a throat culture or blood tests. Your child ...

In October, Governor Jared Polis's administration launched a Colorado Hospital Price Finder as part of a long-running ...

This review seeks to familiarize the readers with RSV rapid antigen-detection tests, describe their performance characteristics and comment on their strengths and weaknesses. The authors will ...

MedEssist equips pharmacies with a unified system that supports booking appointments, managing documentation and communicating with doctors ...

"This is not like doing a rapid strep test or even a rapid COVID test, because of the public health implications," Hammerschlag emphasized. Her institution's survey also showed that some ...

The days of access to free rapid COVID-19 tests are over, unless you stumble across a pharmacy with a few boxes left, and most Albertans wishing to test for the virus now have to pay out of pocket.

A previous audit identified scoring was rarely used, throat swabs regularly sent and neither used to guide antibiotic prescriptions. We used Point of care (POC) testing to develop a structured ...