If you had COVID-19 symptoms in 2020, you probably would have masked up and braved a visit to a laboratory, doctor’s office, or clinic to get a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. A health care ...

The FDA has issued emergency authorizations to 12 antibody tests for the virus. As federal officials gradually begin reopening the country, expanded testing is central to the conversation. Until now, ...

Two types of COVID-19 tests, the rapid antigen test and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, are available in the United States. The PCR typically relies on lab testing and is still considered ...

Molecular tests are far superior to rapid antigen tests—and now you can get them for home use. Last week, I was about to go on a date, and because I'm severely immunocompromised, we agreed he would ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The medicines regulator in Australia has paved the way for home-testing COVID-19 kits to be made ...

India's Tata Group launched a COVID-19 test kit on Monday that it says will process results more easily and faster than the RT-PCR method considered the gold standard for detection, at a time when ...

India developed a home-grown RT-PCR testing kit for Monkeypox, a virus recently declared a global health concern by WHO. The Siemens Healthineers' 'IMDX Monkeypox Detection RT-PCR Assay' received ...