It's easy to make a working stylus for your tablet or mobile device with just a few household supplies, including an ink pen and cotton swab.

To clean your AirPods, you'll need a lint-free cloth, some water and alcohol, and a fine-edged tool like a toothpick to dig ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A nasal swab test could be a breakthrough for children with suspected sinus infections. The test could tell parents whether their child needs antibiotics for their sinus infection ...

Getting a pap smear can be awkward, uncomfortable or even painful. But a new test approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could change that. In May, the FDA approved a self-swab alternative ...

The flu causes millions of illnesses, hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and tens of thousands of deaths each year in ...

A technique that uses a simple cheek swab to pick up gene mutations in healthy tissue could become a "useful tool for cancer ...

Most of us have been using cotton swabs to clean our ears since babyhood, but apparently, it’s really not a good idea. The swabs, aka Q-Tips, have been around for decades, first being made in the ...

Across the country, doctors and hospitals are desperate for testing swabs. Health care professionals say before we can realistically plan how to rebound from this crisis, they first need to know how ...