March 15 (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the ...

2025 update: This federal program has ended and free tests are not current available from the government website. Federal health officials have justified the millions they have spent on device ...

How accurate are the coronavirus tests used in the U.S.? Months into the outbreak, no one really knows how well many of the screening tests work, and experts at top medical centers say it is time to ...

For Sarah Bowen, it all started with a sore throat. Not the kind of searing pain she’d feel with strep, she said, but a throat irritation that just didn’t feel right. “By the end of the day, it just ...

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, ...

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 ...

Testing positive for COVID-19 is not exactly a positive experience. After all, wanting to go viral these days doesn’t tend to mean wanting to be infected by the severe acute respiratory syndrome ...

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 ...

We're learning about two new studies set to launch. One involves testing another form of the treatment Remdesivir, while the other asking professional basketball players to help determine the accuracy ...