The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first coronavirus test kit developed to be performed entirely at home and also yield results in just a half hour. The agency announced Tuesday ...

Medicare Part B covers COVID-19 tests when conducted in laboratories. Part A may cover lab tests if needed in hospital or skilled nursing facility settings. Since 2023, Medicare has no longer covered ...

In today’s world, staying on top of your health has been more important than ever before. A COVID home test kit offers a quick and convenient way to monitor your well-being, especially when you need ...

One home swab now tells a household which of four winter respiratory viruses is present. But it can miss real infections that a lab PCR would catch ...

The FDA has extended the shelf life for some COVID-19 tests. Now that allergy season is here, many are finding themselves with symptoms asking: Is it allergies or a cold? COVID? Something else? Since ...

The federal government says it was starting to offer free COVID-19 test kits again on Monday but the website to order them was not offering them yet on Monday morning and sometimes crashed when trying ...

Update: This program has ended and free tests are not current available from the government website. As cases of a new COVID-19 variant tick upward across the U.S., the federal government is again ...

LetsGetChecked, a company that develops at-home health-testing kits covering various conditions, has raised $71 million in an "oversubscribed" series C round of funding to accelerate the production ...

Several companies marketing a variety of home tests for COVID-19 were warned by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for misbranding and impermissible marketing. The letters, issued this week, ...

It's official -- your household can now order free, at-home COVID-19 test kits from the United States Postal Service, a U.S. government website dedicated to the free kits said Thursday. As of Thursday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The FDA has extended the shelf life for some COVID-19 tests. Now that allergy season is here, many are finding themselves with ...