UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — In the United States, syphilis cases rose by nearly 80% between 2018 and 2023, with 209,253 cases reported in the latest year of data. The infection, which can be transmitted ...

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, ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) have developed a world-first ...

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The first at-home, over-the-counter antibody test for syphilis received marketing authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday. This means biotechnology company ...

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 ...

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new study that found women giving birth in the U.S. are three times more likely to have syphilis today than they were approximately ...