JSTOR Daily

Economic Assessment of Reverse Algorithm Syphilis Screening in a High Prevalence Population

Background: More laboratories are screening for syphilis with automated treponemal immunoassays. We compared direct costs and downstream consequences when a local public health laboratory switches ...
PBS

Health officials recommend more syphilis testing after U.S. newborn cases skyrocketed in 2022

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 ...
Healio

Q&A: CDC publishes first recommendations for syphilis testing amid spike in cases

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Recent CDC data showed a 17% increase in syphilis in the U.S. from 2021 to 2022. New syphilis testing ...
Gizmodo

There’s Now an At-Home Test for Syphilis

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Gizmodo may earn an affiliate commission. Reading time 3 minutes ...
Business Wire

First To Know – the only Over-the-Counter Home Test for Syphilis – Will Now Be Available Through the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors, Building ...

– 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 ...
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 ...
Healio

Universal syphilis screening program increases testing, diagnoses among pregnant people

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.
Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Testing encouraged as syphilis in U.S. newborns rose in 2022

NEW YORK >> 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 age ...
Houston Chronicle

Houston doctors launch 'cutting-edge' testing program to fight congenital syphilis epidemic

Houston doctors have implemented a new testing program that, if widely adopted, could help address the nationwide epidemic of babies born with syphilis. “We’re on the cutting edge,” said Dr. Irene ...
Medscape

Could Rapid Syphilis Testing Turn the Tide in a Worsening Crisis?

In a busy clinic in Jackson, Mississippi, a clinician performs a rapid syphilis test on a pregnant woman. Within 15 minutes, the results are in — she is infected — and treatment can begin immediately.
Renal & Urology News

Over-the-Counter Syphilis Test Now Available for Purchase

Credit: NOWDiagnostics The First to Know Syphilis Test retails for $29.99 and is available online and at major retailers and pharmacies. Positive results indicate the presence of antibodies to ...