Each lateral flow test kit will come with instructions on how to use it. If you need to carry out a throat swab, Abdeh says to open your mouth wide and rub the swab over the back of your throat ...

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 ...

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?

A Covid-19 lateral flow test showing a negative result. Routine testing to identify those infected followed by efficient contact tracing, and supported isolation is still the most effective public ...

In this interview, News-Medical talks to Andre Alfaro from nanoComposix (now a Fortis Life Sciences company) about the possibilities lateral flow assays offer in the post-covid healthscape.

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.

While lateral flow tests are good for giving qualitative data, such as if you have a virus or not, doctors would like to have versions of these easy-to-use diagnostics that give quantitative data.

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

“When reading lateral flow test results, two lines through both the ‘C’ and ‘T’, even faint lines, indicate the test is positive,” a Public Health England spokesperson says.