When the coronavirus outbreak first began in the U.S., the surge highlighted a critical flaw in the U.S. health care system: a lack of available testing kits. Since then, companies and scientists all ...

Costco is now offering at-home testing for COVID-19. The retailer's new saliva test can only be bought online. Because it's a spit test, you don't have to worry about a long nasal swab. The process is ...

BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4)- Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a way to test possible coronavirus patients quickly. The saliva-based test can yield results in just 45 minutes.

The FDA has granted emergency use authorization to the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Conn., for its SalivaDirect COVID-19 diagnostic test, which uses a new method of processing saliva ...

The state of Missouri is working to make a new saliva test for COVID-19 more widely available beyond the St. Louis region in the coming weeks, according to officials within Gov. Mike Parson's ...

WASHINGTON -- Rutgers University researchers have received U.S. government clearance for the first saliva test to help diagnose COVID-19, a new approach that could help expand testing options and ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - A Rutgers University research professor who was a key figure in the development of the first coronavirus spit test has died at age 51, the university said. Andrew Brooks, 51, is ...