Despite increased STI testing in US emergency departments from 2020 to 2024, syphilis screening is often missed, particularly ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you decide it’s time to check your status, you usually want answers now, not three weeks from now. If you’re considering STD ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a recent study published in The Lancet Public Health, researchers performed a meta-analysis on the utility of syphilis self-testing (SST). Study: The role of syphilis self-testing as an additional ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Co-occurence was highest in MSM, Black youth, and youth in the South ...

The U.S. syphilis epidemic slowed dramatically last year, gonorrhea cases fell and chlamydia cases remained below prepandemic levels, according to federal data released Tuesday. Last year, cases of ...