Healthineers competing with Roche, Abbott and others Antigen tests much cheaper and faster than PCR but less accurate Public health systems need wider testing to trace hotspots FRANKFURT, Oct 14 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By now, most of us know the basics of taking a COVID-19 test at home. With cases, test positivity and hospitalizations due to ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- There has been a lot of talk about testing for the coronavirus, but you may not entirely understand what the different tests are for. The coronavirus makes some people sick, some ...

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and rapid (antigen) tests for COVID-19 both involve taking a swab. Results for a PCR test take longer, as it needs to go to a laboratory. It is more costly but tends to ...

U.S. regulators have approved a new type of coronavirus test that administration officials have promoted as a key to opening up the country. The Food and Drug Administration on Saturday announced ...

When North Carolina on Friday added positive coronavirus cases and deaths diagnosed with an antigen test to its daily COVID-19 dashboard, the addition pushed the daily number of reported new cases to ...

New research has advanced COVID-19 vaccine work in several ways: using a modified live attenuated mumps virus for delivery, showing that a more stable coronavirus spike protein stimulates a stronger ...

3M (MMM) is expanding its response to the coronavirus outbreak by partnering with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop a coronavirus antigen test that shortens the turnaround ...