Health researchers are taking a lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic and showing how it can be used to track chronic disease and health behaviors, as well as demographic and socioeconomic conditions.

Pharmacists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have succeeded in detecting small amounts of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 using mass spectrometry. For their investigation, they used gargle ...

Wastewater testing grew tremendously during the pandemic. But is it ready to tackle the opioid crisis, air pollution and antibiotic resistance? In late 2020, COVID-19’s global death toll was rising as ...

Newswise — Tokyo, Japan – Despite significant and stunning advances in vaccine technology, the COVID-19 global pandemic is not over. A key challenge in limiting the spread of severe acute respiratory ...

The COVID-19 disease is caused by the COVID-19 virus. In early 2020, its global spread was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern and then a pandemic by the World Health ...

The new supervised testing method will allow people to call a number connected to a testing center, which will then lead them to a live video call. The call center will then confirm the identity of ...

It’s the fifth summer of Covid, and most people seem eager to move on. We want to understand the pervasiveness of the ignorance-is-bliss attitude. By Emily Baumgaertner Covid cases are surging, but in ...

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers flooded journals with studies about the then-novel coronavirus. Many publications streamlined the peer-review process for COVID-19 papers while keeping ...

Costco is now offering at-home testing for COVID-19. The retailer's new saliva test can only be bought online. Because it's a spit test, you don't have to worry about a long nasal swab. The process is ...