SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – As cases of omicron have surged, so has interest in the optimal way to test for the variant. Are nasal swabs still the best? Or should people opt for a saliva test instead? Alcala ...

New research suggests Omicron may be easier to detect in saliva than nasal samples. Some experts recommend swabbing your throat then your nose for a COVID-19 rapid test, even if the test doesn't say ...

A new saliva test and earlier use of the HbA 1c blood test could pick up type 2 diabetes in high-risk patients earlier than methods in current use, show data from 2 studies. Both tests could both ...

A team of scientists from South Africa has recently demonstrated that saliva swabs are more effective than mid-turbinate swabs for the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based detection of omicron ...

You may have noticed that more and more people are testing positive for COVID-19 after using a rapid test to swab their throats. The trend took off on Twitter this past week, and unlike most of the ...

WASHINGTON -- Rutgers University researchers have received U.S. government clearance for the first saliva test to help diagnose COVID-19, a new approach that could help expand testing options and ...

Preliminary evidence suggests that rapid tests like Abbott BinaxNOW and Quidel QuickVue struggle to detect the omicron variant during an individual’s first few days of infection. AzmanL via Getty ...

Experts urge caution, but school official says benefits "outweigh the risks." With demand for coronavirus testing expected to rise even higher this fall as students return to campuses across the ...

As the coronavirus pandemic broke out across the country, healthcare providers and scientists relied on the standard method for detecting respiratory viruses: sticking a long, swab deep into the nose ...

Researchers from the University of Maryland StopCOVID Research Group have conducted a study comparing saliva and mid-turbinate nasal swabs (MTS) for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) detection and ...