Syphilis testing typically requires obtaining a blood sample and sending it to a lab. The wait for results ranges from hours to days. The FDA has authorized a new at-home syphilis test, a ...
The FDA has authorized the first at-home testing kits for gonorrhea, chlamydia, and trichomoniasis, along with new gonorrhea ...
Last year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first at-home test for three prevalent infections in women – ...
Syphilis cases have been rising at an alarming rate in the United States, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As concerns for syphilis and sexually ...
This 1972 microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a Treponema pallidum bacterium which causes the disease syphilis. (Susan Lindsley/CDC via AP) The nation’s ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pre-intervention, only 6.2% encounters included syphilis testing, which increased to 52.4% postintervention.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted marketing authorization for the first at-home syphilis test. The over-the-counter First To Know Syphilis Test, made by NOWDiagnostics in Arkansas, ...
Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the first at-home, OTC test to detect syphilis — a much-needed diagnostic tool for an infectious disease that has experienced a spike in ...
– Program Provides At-Risk Consumers Access to Free Tests Delivered At Home – SPRINGDALE, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NOWDiagnostics, Inc. (NOWDx), a leader in developing over-the-counter (OTC) and ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Alarmed by yet another jump in syphilis cases in newborns, U.S. health officials are calling for stepped-up prevention measures, including encouraging millions of women of childbearing ...
This week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the way for putting the first at-home, over-the-counter test to detect syphilis antibodies in human blood. Test-kits for syphilis for the ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Congenital syphilis testing has been recommended by medical professionals in the first and third trimester since 2014, but a new pilot program by the Louisiana Department of ...