Fewer students from lower-income backgrounds are taking the SAT and ACT tests than in years past. Credit: Newsday via Getty Images The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...

The start-up Function will send practically anyone to a lab for extensive medical testing, no physical required. Is that a ...

A 2022 study estimates that at-home flu tests have a sensitivity of about 63% if the test is performed within 72 hours of ...

Testosterone tests measure levels of testosterone in the blood. At-home test kits can be convenient, but they cannot diagnose underlying health conditions that cause high or low testosterone. Share on ...

Backers claim the tests can predict a child’s risk of autism using a strand of hair or a mother’s blood, but critics say they are not ready for the market.

Dr. Omar Al-Heeti is an assistant professor of medicine at Southern Illinois University and practices internal medicine with a specialty in infectious diseases. He received his medical degree from the ...

You can't place orders for at-home COVID testing kits anymore, but there are still resources available for free testing. Peter is a writer and editor for the CNET How-To team. He has been covering ...

A CT scan, computed tomography, takes multiple X-rays of the body from different angles in a very short period of time. These images are collected by a computer to give a series of "slices" of the ...

Update: This program has ended and free tests are not current available from the government website. The Biden administration has resumed taking orders for free at-home COVID-19 tests as of Sept. 25.

Gone are the days of visiting a doctor’s office to determine whether you have Covid. Instead, you can buy over-the-counter test kits, which diagnose infection from the comfort of your home, making ...

No matter where you live, standardized tests can be stressful. But what kind of test you take, how many, and what purpose they serve varies wildly from country to country, and even city to city. We ...