It’s best to test for RSV soon after your symptoms start. That’s because you’ll likely have the most virus in your system then. As you get better, the amount of virus will go down. (Photo Credit: ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- As things open back up, we're seeing some places require COVID-19 testing. At-home rapid COVID tests can produce results in minutes. To find out how they work and just how effective ...

“Infectious diseases don’t respect borders,” says Khoa Thai, a clinical microbiologist at the Star-shl medical diagnostics laboratory in the Netherlands. To limit their spread, we need a globally ...

It's been nearly four years since people started getting sick with COVID-19, but with new variants mutating each season, the health steps experts asked us to take at the beginning of the pandemic ...

Doctors sometimes use tests for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to make or confirm a diagnosis. Here’s a look at the different kinds. There are two main kinds of RSV tests: rapid (antigen) and ...

In a study involving nearly 1,000 patients seen at a Baltimore field hospital during a five-month period in 2022, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine, the University of Maryland School of Medicine, ...

Over the past four years, many of us have become accustomed to a swab up the nose to test for COVID-19, using at-home rapid antigen tests or the more accurate clinic-provided PCR tests with a longer ...