The USPSTF concludes with high certainty that screening asymptomatic pregnant persons for syphilis infection has a substantial net benefit. (HealthDay News) — The US Preventive Services Task Force ...

The FDA on Friday granted marketing authorization to NOWDiagnostics for the first at-home, over-the-counter syphilis screening test. The authorization follows last year's authorization of the first at ...

In terms of harms of screening, index test positivity ranged from 1.0 to 4.8%, with estimates of false positives varying from 0 to 65%. HealthDay News — The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Using only targeted models of syphilis screening in the emergency department (ED) would miss large proportions of active syphilis cases as well as new HIV diagnoses and acute HIV ...

A new guidance document issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalizes an earlier draft set of recommendations on how blood and plasma collection centers can screen donors and samples ...

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, ...

With syphilis cases in U.S. newborns skyrocketing, a doctors group now recommends that all pregnant patients be screened three times for the sexually transmitted infection. The American College of ...

Despite a 127% increase in screenings of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the emergency department (ED) from 2020 to 2024, only 9.9% of patients were screened for syphilis, according to a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A hospital system in Texas attempted to increase screening for syphilis among pregnant people. An advisory that ...

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 ...

Offering optional syphilis tests in the emergency room can lead to dramatic results, UChicago Medicine researchers have found. In a study of some 300,000 emergency department encounters in Chicago, a ...