The new test will be available at urgent care clinics and doctors offices A new novel coronavirustest may make diagnosing COVID-19 as easy as the flu. The new point-of-care test, having just received ...

Gone are the days of visiting a doctor’s office to determine whether you have Covid. Instead, you can buy over-the-counter test kits, which diagnose infection from the comfort of your home, making ...

Long Covid has long eluded scientists looking for its cause. Not knowing what triggers its persistent and distressing symptoms makes the condition challenging to treat; it’s hard to even say ...

Colorectal cancer may be associated with a variety of symptoms, including blood in faeces. Small amounts of hidden blood in faeces (known as faecal occult blood) can show that there is bleeding from ...

The FDA has finalized its regulatory rule that aims to bring laboratory-developed tests more in-line with how the agency oversees other diagnostics. At its heart, the 528-page final rule (PDF) looks ...

Unless pathognomonic signs are present or symptoms consistent with measles appear during a local outbreak, diagnosing measles based on clinical signs alone is challenging. Laboratory testing thus ...

This past week, two patients came in with different versions of the same request. A healthy man in his late 40s brought in a printout of his exhaustive blood test panel and wanted my advice on how to ...