Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week is sowing doubt about the safety and efficacy of some vaccines — beyond the ...

The United States government has discontinued its free at-home COVID-19 test program after four years. The program, which began in 2021, shipped over 900 million tests directly to U.S. households.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, pretty much everybody is familiar with this technology: paper-based rapid test strips, also ...

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed critical deficiencies in the global health system and provides important lessons to improve ...

Background Infectious agents such as SARS-CoV-2 require strategies to contain outbreaks, particularly in hospitals where the ...

The low-cost test developed by Professor Vinayak Dravid and research professor Gajendra Shekhawat builds on an existing ...

A team of Northwestern University scientists spanning disciplines have developed new technology that could lead to the ...

Ensitrelvir PEP was safe and effective for COVID-19 prevention among household contacts when administered after the onset of symptoms in an index patient.

In recent years, the familiar symptoms of the flu might kick us into reaching for at-home testing kits. But on the eve of the ...

On this day in 2020, Health Minister Vaughan Gething announced plans to introduce a smart test aimed at identifying whether individuals in Wales ...

Many coronavirus measures will be lifted in Switzerland from June 26th, but some still remain. These are the ones that will stay in place, at least for now. Find out what's going on today in ...

The home test, developed by privately held company Visby Medical, does not require mailing samples to a lab like other existing home-based STI tests. The new test for common STIs chlamydia, gonorrhea, ...