WASHINGTON — Starting Jan. 15, all Americans with private insurance will be able to buy at-home COVID-19 tests and have the cost covered by their insurers. As the government attempts to make tests ...

With a growing number of COVID-19 tests coming back negative, a team of Mayo Clinic doctors cautioned against using test results as an excuse to ease up on social distancing. Diagnostic sensitivity of ...

For most people, having an at-home COVID test or two handy is just a normal part of life these days. But, if you happen to take a test and get a positive you weren’t expecting, it’s more than ...

The first at-home pregnancy tests weren’t developed until the late 1970s, and since then, the market has exploded and is now worth half a billion dollars. Tests no longer take two hours to produce ...

Why do false negatives with COVID tests happen? At-home tests are useful in that they quickly give you peace of mind, or let you know immediately if you need to isolate. But rapid antigen tests (the ...

The U.S. government is mailing out another round of free COVID tests to households that sign up. Older COVID tests still may be in your cupboard and OK to use, but you must verify the test’s ...

"We know that the incubation period for Covid-19 is up to 14 days. And before that, you can be testing negative, and have no symptoms," emergency medicine physician Dr. Leana Wen told CNN. "But you ...

The Ideastream Health Team is working to answer listeners’ questions about COVID-19, with help from local experts. You can send us your questions with our online form, through our social media group, ...

Signage is on display as motorists wait for a COVID-19 test in the parking lot of Friendship-West Baptist Church in south Dallas, on Jan. 6. As testing demand grows, some are experiencing false ...