Testing yourself for coronavirus infection can be more convenient than getting a clinic or lab test, but from a public health standpoint, experts say there’s at least one key downside. In the US, ...

Self-tests for COVID-19, also referred to as home or over-the-counter (OTC) tests, are becoming widely available in the U.S. and throughout the world. Self-tests allow people to test frequently and ...

Assoumou is an infectious diseases physician-scientist at Boston Medical Center. Miller is a research data associate within Dr. Assoumou’s I-CARE (Infectious Complications Assessment and Research) lab ...

The CLINITEST Rapid COVID-19 Antigen Self-Test has received FDA EUA for unsupervised self-testing for the SARS-CoV-2 virus by individuals age 14 and older (or adult-collected samples from individuals ...

The test will allow people to self-collect samples in health care settings. One of the first tests that allows patients to self-collect samples to screen for human papillomavirus (HPV) will soon be ...

The Food and Drug Administration’s first-ever approval of an at-home test for chlamydia and gonorrhea could help drive earlier detection and treatment of these sexually transmitted infections amid a ...