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 ...

Dozens of blood tests are rapidly coming on the market to identify people who have been exposed to the coronavirus by checking for antibodies against it. The Food and Drug Administration doesn't set ...

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. Tuesday, April 21, 2020 LOS ...

A new, next-level coronavirus-antibody test that measures not just antibodies’ presence but also how much protection they afford are on the way. The test, which on Wednesday received emergency-use ...

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 ...

As the UK government reaches its target of testing 100,000 people daily for coronavirus, it is now looking at antibody testing as it figures out how to ease the current lockdown. Antibody tests, also ...

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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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." TAKING A COVID-19 TEST is probably your first instinct when you wake up with a fever or sore throat or ...