RSV is short for respiratory syncytial virus. It’s a virus that can cause respiratory infections in your lungs, nose, and throat. It’s best to test for RSV soon after your symptoms start. That’s ...

There are currently two options for at-home flu testing. Here's what you need to know. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Getty Images) Many Americans have become accustomed to swabbing their ...

These days, many people use at-home COVID-19 tests when they feel ill, rather than going out to get tested by a professional. (That’s when they bother to test at all.) But for all their convenience, ...

There are a number of different ways to test for COVID-19, some of which are able to diagnose an active infection and others that look for the presence of antibodies in an individual’s blood. Let’s ...

In a study involving nearly 1,000 patients seen at a Baltimore field hospital during a five-month period in 2022, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine, the University of Maryland School of Medicine, ...

People can test themselves about as accurately at home with rapid antigen coronavirus tests as health care professionals using the same tests, according to a Johns Hopkins Medicine-led study published ...

COVID cases are starting to creep up again in the U.S., and it’s understandable to have new questions about the virus and the newest CDC guidance on isolation after a positive test. After all, it’s ...

PCR is a mainstay in diagnostics, but whether a sample is collected at a clinic or at home, such tests require sending a sample to a lab and then waiting for results. A new FDA authorized ...

Can at-home COVID tests pick up new variants such as Eris and Pirola? (Photo Illustration: Victoria Ellis for Yahoo News; photos: Getty Images) At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was no ...

Approaches incorporating rapid or digital PCR, CRISPR, syndromic testing, and multimodal systems reached new milestones this year.