New Federal Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines Allow For At-Home Self Testing. Here’s Why That Matters

A doctor and public health expert explains why the new federal guidelines expanding cervical cancer screening to at-home ...

Cervical cancer self-test in U.S. gets federal endorsement

Research has shown that self-collected tests have similar efficacy as when a medical doctor does the screening, according to ...

Can You Go To Urgent Care For STD Testing?

Many health insurance plans are required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to cover certain STD screenings without ...

Flu is surging in the U.S. How accurate are at-home flu tests?

A 2022 study estimates that at-home flu tests have a sensitivity of about 63% if the test is performed within 72 hours of ...
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PCR Comes to the Home With FDA Authorization of Visby’s OTC Sexual Health Test

PCR is a mainstay in diagnostics, but whether a sample is collected at a clinic or at home, such tests require sending a sample to a lab and then waiting for results. A new FDA authorized ...
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Gilead Sciences Exercises Option to License Assembly Biosciences’ Helicase-Primase Inhibitor Programs for Recurrent Genital Herpes

FOSTER CITY, Calif. & SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) and Assembly Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASMB), today announced Gilead has exercised its ...