To collect a throat sample, stick out your tongue, find your tonsils, and swab back and forth. Swab your throat before your nose! Wash your hands and refrain from eating or drinking for 30 minutes ...

Mayo Clinic ear, nose and throat surgeons hoped to find a more user-friendly test for strep throat than swabbing the tonsils directly, but instead discovered that the swab has to touch the tonsils to ...

As anyone who's ever gone to the doctor with a sore throat can attest, throat swabs are the pits. "Tonsil swabbing is terrible - it makes people gag," said Dr. Jonathan Lee, an ear, nose and throat ...

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, people are turning to home testing kits for clarity and peace of mind. However, there have been doubts around the accuracy of such tests. Experts have warned ...

To collect a throat sample, stick out your tongue, find your tonsils, and swab back and forth. Swab your throat before your nose! Wash your hands and refrain from eating or drinking for 30 minutes ...