UMass Chan Medical School researchers have documented a phenomenon that had confounded clinicians: Some people persistently test positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, on rapid home ...

The potential for IgM cross-reactivity with rheumatoid factor–positive serum samples was observed in blood tests used to detect IgM SARS-CoV-2 by means of gold immunochromatographic and enzyme-linked ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Since the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was identified in 1983, roughly 91.4 million people around the world have contracted the virus and an additional 44.1 million have ...

A short paper, "Persistent False Positive COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Tests,” caught my eye in the Feb. 22 New England Journal of Medicine. This kind of test done at home with a kit from the store is ...