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 ...

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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.

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