Microscopy and DNA tests are both viable, but sensitivity, cost, and availability vary ...

Antibody testing shows whether you've had the COVID-19 virus in the past. It's not the same as testing to see whether you have the virus now.

UPPER EAST SIDE, N.Y. (PIX11) — The city’s mayor and health commissioner defended against criticism on Wednesday of how ...

Fast testing, aggressive remediation, and transparent communication offer a public health ...

The symptoms of cyclospora resemble other, more common stomach bugs, and many people will try to wait it out at home rather ...

“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 ...

A highly sensitive blood test can detect signs of pancreatic cancer that standard methods often miss, according to results of ...

With the number of Legionnaires' disease cases now at 23​, New York City is aggressively testing more than 150 cooling towers on Upper East Side buildings.

Doctors say older adults, pregnant women, and people with diabetes, heart disease, chronic lung disease, kidney disease, ...

Taylor Farms lettuce tied to a cyclospora outbreak got a false positive FDA test. The recall hasn't changed. Here's what that ...

Many people will have experienced being unwell with an unknown infection and having to undergo multiple tests to determine the culprit. This sequential process of elimination can be time-consuming and ...

New structural variation sequencing reads long stretches of fetal DNA to pinpoint duplications, flips, and rearrangements, ...