Most people should take a lateral flow test twice a week but if you’ve been in contact with someone who has caught Covid-19 you should do a daily lateral flow test for the seven days following.

Lateral flow has grown beyond the home pregnancy test and has the potential to give people access to a range of quick, affordable and accurate tests they can perform at home to screen for a ...

However, there is no guarantee that a lateral flow test will be accurate 100 percent of the time, leaving some people with a false positive or false negative. So, what do you do in this situation ...

Lateral flow tests are now the "gold standard" for rapid, take-at-home tests for COVID-19, but what are they, and how do they work? What is a lateral flow test?

Britain, which started providing free lateral-flow test (LFT) kits to the general public in April 2021, has the biggest testing programme in Europe.

Accessible Lateral Flow Assays: Test to Treat, Test to Protect From development to implementation, Rosanna Peeling discusses the importance of rapid tests for public health.

The rise of the omicron coronavirus variant has put an increased focus on regular testing, but are rapid lateral flow tests the right tool for the job?

Do I have the flu? How are my organs functioning? All of which can be answered in minutes with a lateral flow test. Thanks to COVID, a new world is being created, and it is a very exciting time.

Just as we thought we understood COVID testing, along came omicron and raised a whole new bunch of questions. We asked Dr Andrew Lee, a reader in global public health, to answer them. Lateral flow ...

False. Lateral flow test swabs sterilised with ethylene oxide are not damaging to your health. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our fact-checking work here .

While lateral flow tests are once again available on the government website and able to be picked up from pharmacies, how accurate are these at-home tests in determining whether or not you have ...

Lateral flow test kits, which can provide results in just 30 minutes, are now available free through workplaces, at testing sites and via the post. The further expansion of testing will enable the ...