One home swab now tells a household which of four winter respiratory viruses is present. But it can miss real infections that a lab PCR would catch ...

The question quickly arose whether existing rapid antigen tests could detect newly emerging variants. Using clinical samples obtained from diagnostic labs throughout the U.S. from 2020 to 2023, the ...

The days of free at-home COVID-19 tests may be over, but the virus certainly hasn’t gone away. So, needless to say, it’s a smart idea to keep some rapid tests on hand and ready to go — especially if ...

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Adding a throat swab specimen to a nasal specimen significantly increased sensitivity of COVID-19 rapid antigen tests, whether self-collected or collected by a healthcare worker, a randomized clinical ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized the first rapid coronavirus test that doesn’t need any special computer equipment to get results. The 15-minute test from Abbott Laboratories ...

QuidelOrtho's Sofia 2 SARS Antigen+ FIA test returns results within 10 minutes. Once each test is complete, the Sofia 2 system automatically adds the de-identified results to the company's Virena data ...

If you have respiratory symptoms as we head towards winter and flu season, could it be COVID or the flu? Or something else entirely? Now, we have a range of home tests that can distinguish between flu ...

Many Long Islanders accustomed to free COVID-19 tests now will have to pay more than $10 for home kits, and prices for tests at doctors' offices are expected to average between $130 and $150, leading ...

This story was updated to include Erie County's latest flu, COVID-19 and RSV data as of Jan. 2. Saint Vincent Hospital treated so many patients with respiratory illness last week that its emergency ...