Julie Ann Justo, an infectious disease clinical pharmacist for a South Carolina hospital system, hoped Christmas week would finally be the time her family could safely gather for a reunion. Before the ...

Jan 10 (Reuters) - The fast-spreading Omicron variant has made us more reliant on rapid at-home antigen tests to tell us if we have COVID-19. But should we be swabbing our throats as well as our noses ...

For instance, if you only get a very faint line, it might be hard to know whether or not that means your results are positive. I know how that feels firsthand. After more than two years of evading ...

COVID-19 rapid tests are now widely available in New Hampshire, but some of these test kits warn that a negative result may not mean a test-taker doesn’t have COVID. How should someone taking a test ...

There are plenty of rapid tests now. So what do we do with them? Millions of Americans have purchased rapid COVID-19 tests online or at local stores and signed up to receive test kits through a free ...

Slate is making its essential coronavirus coverage free for all readers. Subscribe to support our journalism. Earlier this month, Jacklyn Grace Lacey tested herself for COVID-19 using a home kit.

Lisa Rowan is a former Lead Editor, Consumer Finance at Forbes Advisor. Previously she was the Two Cents personal finance reporter at Lifehacker and a senior writer and on-air analyst at The Penny ...

If you've ever taken an at-home diagnostic test for COVID-19, you can partially credit the technology to the Johns Hopkins University Center for Innovative Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases (CIDID).

A Facebook user claimed that Minute Maid Peach Punch tested positive for COVID-19 on a rapid test. The test appeared to display positive results, but that doesn’t mean the test detected the virus.