Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a result of the rapidly-spreading Omicron variant, Covid case numbers have continued to rise across the UK in record numbers, ...

Lateral flow tests (LFT) are in high demand across the UK as the Omicron variant sees daily case rates surge to over 218,000 as of January 4, 2022. However, even if you have access to the coronavirus ...

Many of us will now be very familiar with Covid lateral flow tests, but a doctor has warned that there are a number of mistakes people regularly make when taking them. As reported by Birmingham Live, ...

Editor's Note: Article updated with latest information on availability of tests. People faced problems getting hold of the tests last week after a huge surge in demand prompted the Government website ...

In this interview, News-Medical talks to Andre Alfaro from nanoComposix (now a Fortis Life Sciences Company) about the possibilities lateral flow assays offer in both the present and potential ...

The following article is an opinion piece written by Phil Groom. The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official position of ...

PCR tests have been the main test used for Covid-19 during the early part of the pandemic. They can detect Covid-19 very well, but need to be processed in a laboratory. Therefore, they have mainly ...

Just as we thought we understood COVID testing, along came omicron and raised a whole new bunch of questions. We asked Dr Andrew Lee, a reader in global public health, to answer them. The UK ...

The field of lateral flow diagnostics is growing rapidly, with many innovative applications now ranging from the identification of toxins in food to plant pathogen detection; they have come a long way ...

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