During the pandemic, the National Kidney Foundation of Hawaiʻi charged island taxpayers premium prices for Covid tests – up to $166 per test – as millions of public dollars flowed to the nonprofit’s ...

New research has found that at-home gut microbiome tests lack standardization, resulting in different results from the same ...

While researchers gain new insights into the transmission of Buruli ulcer in Australia, public health specialists in Africa are working to engage traditional healers. Sophie Cousins reports.

Bills to allow Minnesota's hemp industry to continue testing out-of-state for the next year and a half are on the move at the Capitol.

The results were even more disparate than the team had expected. Of the more than 1,200 families of microbes identified by all the tests combined, just three microbe families were present in all seven ...

In the canals, marshes, and swamps of the Florida Everglades, invasive fish are silently slipping into new waterways. Among them are the Asian swamp eel and the bullseye snakehead, two air-breathing ...

The FDA has cleared a multiplex polymerase chain reaction test designed to detect 11 clinically relevant gastrointestinal pathogens from a single stool sample.The Xpert GI Panel (Cepheid) can identify ...

University of Florida scientists have rolled out a DNA "tripwire" that can flag two notoriously stealthy invasive fish from just a few drops of canal water, giving Florida a new early-warning system ...

With at least 23 measles cases reported in North Carolina since December, critical public health decisions begin inside the ...

In 1983, a biochemist driving through California had an insight that would transform biology — a moment he later linked to ...

The system is intended for use in urgent care clinics, primary care settings, physician office laboratories, and pharmacies.

The FDA clearance represents a pivotal step in LEX Diagnostics’ strategy and underscores the company’s commitment to advancing point-of-care testing with accurate, timely, and clinically actionable ...