One of the most rapidly accelerating health trends today is direct-to-consumer lab testing, in which users pay a company for a certain test, collect their own mouth or nasal swabs, finger-prick blood ...

Mohana Ravindranath is a freelance health, science, and tech journalist and a 2025 Association for Health Care Journalists fellow. She was previously a Bay Area health tech correspondent for STAT.

A customer enters the front door of a cannabis retailer in New York. Cannabis retailers say it's hard to sell flower with less than 20% THCa, the form of tetrahydrocannabinol that becomes psychoactive ...

You’ve just finished a clinic visit with your primary care provider, and you’ve been sent to the lab for a blood test. What happens next?

The federal government's disease-tracking agency has paused its diagnostic testing for rabies, monkeypox and a number of other infectious diseases.

The CDC routinely reviews the tests maintained by its laboratories as part of its commitment to laboratory quality and efficiency, and regularly pauses some tests while reviews and changes are made as ...