There are three different ways to test for COVID-19: PCR tests, antigen tests and antibody tests. Each method is best for a different stage of COVID-19 infection. Used in sequence, all three methods ...

These tests have very limited clinical use. The need for antibody testing would be to determine if a patient has recovered from COVID-19, and whether we could take a sample of the patient’s plasma to ...

Coronavirus tests have become increasingly easier to get hold of as the pandemic has progressed. Now more than 163 million Covid-19 tests have been taken in the UK since the start of the pandemic, ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* server, a team of researchers investigated how antigen concentration and viral load in different specimen types affected the performance of severe acute ...

Tissues and cough medicine may be under your tree this season. COVID cases and severity is spiking as cold and flu season rages on, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is tracking the ...

WORCESTER – Anyone who gets a negative result for COVID-19 from an at-home rapid antigen test shouldn't assume they're not infected, and should keep testing, according to a safety recommendation ...

Add COVID-19 testing to the differences between the women's and men's tournaments that has coaches and players unhappy in Texas about what they say is a growing list of inequities. The NCAA has run ...

Since the start of the pandemic, the FDA has issued emergency use authorizations to a whopping 444 diagnostic tests and sample collection devices to detect the COVID-19 virus. In recent months, ...

More than 56,000 COVID-19 antigen rapid tests are being recalled because they may provide inaccurate results, according to federal health officials. Universal Meditech Inc., which initiated the ...