Learn how representative samples and random samples differ and why combining them minimizes sampling bias for accurate data.

A University of Michigan research team is collecting stool samples from people with norovirus symptoms or those who have recovered within the past three days in order to study the virus and seek a ...

Free samples of prescription drugs may seem like a great deal for patients. But even when doctors think they’re doing patients a favor by handing out the freebies, the real beneficiaries are the drug ...

Hot spots within the ED included the acute-care area (9 of 13 samples positive), the public waiting room (6 of 12), and a walkway area (1 of 1). In the ICU, positive samples were detected in a staff ...

Nearly 50 years have passed since NASA collected samples of the Moon during the Apollo missions of the late 1960s and 1970s. Now, the government space agency has finally chosen to study them, with the ...

Drug samples used to be de rigueur for the majority of pharmaceutical sales calls. As new data show, the goal of getting samples into the hands of doctors or patients is falling out of favor, and the ...

In a recent study published in the PLOS ONE journal, researchers at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School explored the persistence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in human ...

Doctors usually want to run tests on blood samples as quickly as possible, before they start to degrade. As it turns out, such a practice may not be necessary. Scientists conducting experiments with a ...