BLACKFOOT, Idaho (KIFI) – Fargo-based medical startup, Checkable Medical, is conducting a clinical study to prove the safety and effectiveness of an over-the-counter at-home strep test. Once the study ...

Patty Post was a busy mother of three who had grown tired of the revolving door of clinic visits whenever one of her children had strep throat. She started to ask, "Why couldn't this test be taken at ...

WEST FARGO — A photo collage hangs in Patty Post’s office that shows Post as a toddler, looking like she belongs on some kind of Forbes “50 under 5” list. Taken by her dad’s assistant when he was an ...

Developers are pursuing rapid flu and strep-throat diagnostic products as the pandemic raised consumers’ comfort level with monitoring their own health, The Wall Street Journal reported March 3.

Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Physicians Roseville Pediatrics says COVID-19 cases have persisted. They are still seeing a lot of other viral illnesses that are testing negative for COVID-19, ...

Pediatricians at Penn State Health Golisano Children's Hospital are seeing viral upper respiratory infections, flu and RSV. UPMC Children's Community Pediatrics reports a stomach bug, flu, ...

A new study finds doctors don't need to double-check the results of a negative strep throat test. That's because any missed cases typically don't result in additional health problems. The study in the ...

When everyone was wearing masks, washing their hands constantly, avoiding crowds and staying 6 feet apart, strep throat cases were uncommonly low. But then, so were cases of flu, RSV, the common cold ...

FITCHBURG (WKOW) -- As cases of group A strep surge in southern Wisconsin, some pharmacies in our area are experiencing a backlog of the common strep treatment drug, Amoxicillin. Pharmacists at ...