CHICAGO (NewsNation Now) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use approval for Abbott’s latest lab-based COVID-19 IgM antibody test, the company announced Monday. Abbott ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- There has been a lot of talk about testing for the coronavirus, but you may not entirely understand what the different tests are for. The coronavirus makes some people sick, some ...

Coronavirus antibody tests can determine if someone was previously infected, but many available tests are not fully reliable, according to the head of a Los Angeles clinic. LOS ANGELES -- In addition ...

Dr. Elitza Theel is the Laboratory Director for the Infectious Diseases Serology Lab at the Mayo Clinic, which is one of many medical centers across the U.S. that has started to roll out a COVID-19 ...

A diagnostics company has made coronavirus antibody tests more widely available, but the effectiveness and reliability of such tests remain in question. Quest Diagnostics on Tuesday announced its ...

An American health care company hopes to ship millions of coronavirus antibody tests across the country in hopes of helping both researchers in finding a treatment and public health officials in ...

Lawmakers worry about the reliability of the tests as states reopen. Democratic lawmakers are questioning the accuracy of a number of coronavirus antibody tests seen as crucial to reopening the ...

Such a treatment also may help determine how many people were exposed. With a limited supply of COVID-19 tests in the United States, people with mild symptoms are less likely to be tested, leaving ...

A T-cell test developed by Adaptive Biotechnologies could become the first commercially available test of its kind, and it may be more effective at detecting past COVID-19 infections than antibody ...

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