Over the past two years, diagnosing a coronavirus infection has often required probing the nose. Health care workers have inserted slender swabs deep into the recesses of Americans’ nasal passages, ...

The reason why some patients have only mild symptoms and recover quickly and others fall seriously ill remains one of the many mysteries of COVID-19. However, a team at Boston Children’s hospital has ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A new online trend is causing concern among health experts and it has to do with the way you're administering your at-home COVID-19 test. Rather than swabbing just the inside of ...

COVID-19 cases in the U.S. are at record numbers, fueled by the spread of the omicron variant. The country’s daily test volume has risen in tandem, and is now at its highest compared to any other ...

Some medical experts are debating whether you should swab your throat when doing an at-home COVID-19 test. Some say swabbing your throat - and your nose - may boost the chances a home test can detect ...

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It can be hard to decipher when you or your children are suffering from allergies or something more serious. When should you go to the doctor? When should you take medicine, and what should you take?