At its peak, the current COVID-19 pandemic has all but brought social and economic life to a virtual standstill. Although lockdowns and social distancing have proven effective in bringing down infection...
In clinical trials, a time-honored but old-school way to determine if TB is being knocked out by antibiotics involves having study participants cough up phlegm for a sputum culture, a test that can gauge...
Nonprofit donates wedding dresses to health care workers on pandemic frontlines
Registered nurse Nicole Harris, a bride-to-be receiving a donated wedding dress, and Heidi Janson, founder of Brides Across...
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, together with their colleagues at the Barcelona Beta Research Centre in Spain, the University Medical Centre in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and the University...
TUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2020 — The U.S. government will start distributing millions of rapid COVID-19 tests to states this week with the goal of reopening schools.
About 6.5 million tests will be shipped...
The Trump administration has announced a plan to distribute millions of rapid COVID-19 tests to states, with a focus on using the tests to reopen schools.
On Monday (Sept. 28), President Donald Trump said...
The World Health Organization announced Monday that it and leading partners have agreed to a plan to roll out 120 million rapid-diagnostic tests for the coronavirus to help lower- and middle-income countries...
From inaccurate Covid swabs to dodgy home pregnancy kits… why you CAN’T always count on tests results
From nasal swabs for the coronavirus, to home pregnancy kits and allergy tests, there are...
A Cambridge hospital has piloted the use of combined rapid point-of-care nucleic acid and antibody testing for SARS-CoV-2 infection after researchers at the University of Cambridge showed that this approach...
Italy has imposed mandatory coronavirus testing for all travellers arriving from Croatia, Greece, Malta and Spain, and banned all visitors from Colombia, in a bid to rein in new infections.
“We...
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