The Financial

Emergency department screening more than doubles detection of syphilis cases

The FINANCIAL — Providing optional syphilis tests to most people seeking care at a large emergency department led to a dramatic increase in syphilis screening and diagnosis, according to a National ...
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 ...
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, ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

Opt-Out Syphilis Screening in ED Improves Screening, Diagnosis

“Opt-out screening will be an important strategy in the effort to address the syphilis epidemic,” the authors write. HealthDay News — Implementation of opt-out emergency department syphilis screening ...
Business Wire

NOWDiagnostics and Labcorp Collaborate to Expand Access to the Only FDA-Marketing Authorized Over-the-Counter Syphilis Test in the U.S.

As syphilis cases surge nationwide, the collaboration will bring the First To Know ® over-the-counter test to clinicians and patients across professional and hospital settings SPRINGDALE, ...
MD&M East

FDA Greenlights At-Home Syphilis Test

FDA has cleared what it said is the first at-home, over-the-counter test to help with the detection of syphilis. The test was developed by NOWDiagnostistics and detects reponema pallidum (syphilis) ...
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VITROS® Syphilis Assay Now Available on VITROS 3600 Immunodiagnostic System, VITROS 5600 and VITROS XT 7600 Integrated Systems in the U.S.

QuidelOrtho’s infectious disease test portfolio spans the healthcare continuum from point-of-care settings to high-throughput laboratories and is critical in addressing the growing syphilis epidemic ...
Rolling Out

Alarming surge in syphilis cases raises new health concerns

In a concerning development that has caught the attention of public health officials nationwide, syphilis – a sexually transmitted infection once considered to be in decline – has made an alarming ...
JSTOR Daily

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Diagnosis After a Syphilis, Gonorrhea, or Repeat Diagnosis Among Males Including non–Men Who Have Sex With Men

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Background: The release of the first drug for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in 2012 marked the beginning ...
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Emergency department screening more than doubles detection of syphilis cases

Rapid testing items for syphilis (bottom right); a colorized electron micrograph of Treponema pallidum, the bacteria that cause syphilis (spiral-shaped bacteria have been highlighted in pink) (center) ...
Morningstar

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 ...

Syphilis rates in the U.S. have surged by over 200% in the past 15 years, with overall rates increasing by 57% since 2019, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Congenital ...