EMERYVILLE, Calif. (KGO) -- An East Bay biotech company is racing to launch a portable COVID-19 test that promises results in under 15 minutes. The need has never been greater Coronavirus: Shelter in ...

2025 update: This federal program has ended and free tests are not current available from the government website. Federal health officials have justified the millions they have spent on device ...

Scientists at Mass General Brigham have developed a powerful new tool called LUCAS (Luminescence CAscade-based Sensor). Unlike older virus detection tests, LUCAS is fast, portable, and incredibly ...

The federal government is re-upping the program that delivers free COVID home-testing kits via the Postal Service. The order form at Covidtests.gov will be live before the end of the month. That ...

Such knowledge could be particularly useful when it comes to COVID-19. Granted, the symptoms of the latest Omicron variants don’t tend to be severe, but testing positive means isolating for several ...

Using expired COVID-19 tests is not recommended. If you have old COVID tests in your medicine cabinet, it may be tempting to use one. However, COVID tests do expire and may not be accurate after the ...

WASHINGTON -- Rutgers University researchers have received U.S. government clearance for the first saliva test to help diagnose COVID-19, a new approach that could help expand testing options and ...