His Lab Billed $96M For COVID And Flu Tests. Feds Say Bogus Samples Drove The Scheme

A Raleigh man has pleaded guilty in a health care fraud case where federal prosecutors say his California laboratory received ...
Los Angeles Times

More than $300 million in unnecessary COVID-19 testing could land Glendale lab owner in prison for 20 years

A Glendale laboratory owner acknowledged in federal court that she fraudulently billed hundreds of million of dollars in COVID-19 testing during a nearly two-year run. Lourdes Navarro, 64, could ...
UPI

Long COVID continues to evade diagnosis through lab tests

NEW YORK, Aug. 12 (UPI) --Blood and urine tests are ineffective for diagnosing long COVID -- a constellation of long-term symptoms such as chronic pain, brain fog, shortness of breath and intense ...
CNN

US lab tests suggest new Covid-19 variant BA.2.86 may be less contagious and less immune-evasive than feared

Two teams of US scientists have completed lab experiments testing the antibodies from vaccinated and infected Americans to see how well they might be able to fend off currently circulating variants of ...
RAPS

FDA issues EUA for saliva-based COVID-19 test, provides path for wider home sample collection

The EUA allows Rutgers Clinical Genomics Laboratory to use its TaqPath SARS-CoV-2 Assay, which was previously covered under the umbrella EUA for laboratory developed tests (LDT) for COVID-19, to test ...
The Brown Daily Herald

From Brown to Broad and back again: the journey of the COVID-19 swab test samples

Each week, the University and its testing partners process over 10,000 samples, most of which are collected on campus, then shipped beyond the state to laboratories in Massachusetts. Despite the ...

Mass Covid testing begins for Bills' playoff game: 'It was quick. It was easy.'

Each of the nearly 6,800 people attending Saturday's game against the Colts will have to show proof of a negative test to ...