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The 4 Best At-Home Syphilis Test Kits

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are common. According to the World Health Organization, more than 1 million STIs are acquired every day across the globe. Syphilis is one of the most common STIs ...
Fox News

First at-home syphilis antibody test gets FDA authorization as STD cases spike in US

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, ...
Business Wire

First and Only In-Home Test for Syphilis Now Available to Consumers through Major Retailers and Public Health: NOWDiagnostics Launches First To Know® Syphilis Test Across the U.S.

SPRINGDALE, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NOWDiagnostics, Inc. (NOWDx), a developer of over-the-counter (OTC) and point-of-care (POC) diagnostic tests, today announced that its First To Know® Syphilis Test—a ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

New At-Home Syphilis Test Has Potential to Save Lives and Money

CDC data from 2021 show the lifetime cost of treating syphilis to be $1190. There are 4 types of syphilis: primary syphilis, secondary syphilis, latent syphilis, and congenital syphilis ...
Medical News Today

5 of the best at-home syphilis tests

A person can order a home syphilis test online or buy one from some in-store pharmacies. Usually, an individual needs to take a blood sample from a finger prick. And more thorough tests, which can ...
MedCity News

FDA Authorizes First At-Home, OTC Diagnostic Test for Syphilis

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 Hill

FDA gives green light to first at-home syphilis test as cases rise

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted market authorization to the first at-home syphilis test amid a decades-long rise of cases in the U.S. The test, which detects syphilis antibodies in ...
Cleveland.com

FDA approves first at-home syphilis test to combat U.S. rise in sexually transmitted infection

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Americans can now test for syphilis using the first at-home, over-the-counter test to be approved for this sexually transmitted infection. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...
Scientific American

At-Home Syphilis Test Could Increase Access and Combat Epidemic

On August 16 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the sale of the first over-the-counter at-home test for syphilis in an effort to contain a national surge in the sexually transmitted ...
clinicaladvisor.com

Is it herpes, syphilis, or something else?

Genital ulcers could be one of many sexually transmitted diseases or an infection that is not transmitted by sex. An expert walks you through a case. This is the first of a three-part series on ...
Medscape

Chancre of the Eyelid as Manifestation of Primary Syphilis, and Precocious Chorioretinitis and Uveitis in an HIV-infected Patient

We report the favorable outcome of a case of bilateral chorioretinitis and uveitis in an HIV–infected patient, which started out as a unilateral ulcer on the lower eyelid. In January 2011, a ...