On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted NOWDiagnostics marketing authorization for the first at-home and over-the-counter syphilis test. The First To Know Syphilis Test is designed to ...

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, ...

Syphilis often has few (or no) symptoms — getting screened can help prevent serious, long-term health problems. (Getty Images) After years of alarming increases in rates of syphilis and congenital ...

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 ...

The first at-home syphilis test has been approved for sale in the US as the worsening epidemic and decades-long rise in cases continues. The Food and Drug Administration granted approval Friday for a ...

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 ...

People looking to stay on top of their sexual health will now have a new tool at their disposal. Over the weekend, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the first at-home, over-the-counter ...

Syphilis cases have risen sharply in the United States over the past few years The FDA on Friday approved the first nonprescription at-home test for the infection Any test result should be confirmed ...

As our public health systems work in overdrive to fight the nation's out-of-control STI epidemic, partnerships like this one ...

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 ...

The number of babies being born with syphilis has climbed for 12 straight years, continuing even as STIs have declined.