HONOLULU -- Health officials say a baby born in a Hawaii hospital is the first in the U.S. with a birth defect linked to the Zika virus, a tropical illness currently found in Latin American and ...

The Food and Drug Administration has granted Quest Diagnostics, a clinical laboratory services company, an Emergency Use Authorization for Quest’s Zika Virus RNA Qualitative Real-Time RT-PCR test, a ...

PHOENIX — Researchers at Arizona State University are developing a test for the Zika virus that would cost just $1 each, the school said. “You read the test results through a color change on a piece ...

The Zika virus has struck fear throughout the Americas, but determining whether people have been infected can be difficult. Here's why: Most infected people don't display symptoms or they choose to ...

On Wednesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced approval for the use of an investigational test to screen blood donations for the Zika virus. The clearance for the new test will allow ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the ZIKV Detect 2.0 IgM Capture ELISA (InBios International Inc) for routine use in detecting Zika virus immunoglobulin (IgM) antibodies in human ...

The federal government wants doctors to run more tests on infants born to mothers possibly infected with the Zika virus, which is spreading in Miami. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Mayo Clinic will offer the Zika virus antibody test developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).This test has received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and ...

Washington University in St. Louis researchers have developed a test that quickly detects the presence of Zika virus in blood. Currently, testing for Zika requires that a blood sample be refrigerated ...

Theranos just can’t seem to get anything right these days. The embattled diagnostics company has withdrawn its request for emergency Food and Drug Administration clearance of a test for the Zika virus ...

Brazilian researchers have developed a simple test that almost instantly tells whether a person has been exposed to any of the four dengue virus serotypes, as well as zika virus. The test is an enzyme ...