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2. Syphilis cases are on the rise. The FDA just approved a home ...

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   The FDA just approved a home test that could combat that. Kaitlin Reilly. August 17, 2024 at 2:12 PM. ... Soon you will be able to test for syphilis at home, thanks to a first-of-its-kind approval ...

3. US FDA approves first at-home syphilis test - AOL

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   US FDA approves first at-home syphilis test. August 16, 2024 at 11:12 AM ... over-the-counter test to detect syphilis antibodies in human blood in a move that could help boost screening rates for ...

4. Some worry that the first FDA-approved at-home test for STIs ...

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   The test kit, called Simple 2, does not screen for syphilis, which typically requires at least a finger-prick blood sample. There were at least 177,000 syphilis cases in 2021, a 74% increase since ...

5. STD epidemic slows as new syphilis and gonorrhea cases fall ...

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   Still, Harvey said he had reasons for optimism, including the growing use of doxycycline and a push for at-home STD test kits. Also, there are reasons to think the next presidential administration could get behind STD prevention. In 2019, then-President Donald Trump announced a campaign to “eliminate” the U.S. HIV epidemic by 2030. (Federal ...

6. Rapid plasma reagin - Wikipedia

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   The rapid plasma reagin test (RPR test or RPR titer) is a type of rapid diagnostic test that looks for non-specific antibodies in the blood of the patient that may indicate an infection by syphilis or related non-venereal treponematoses. It is one of several nontreponemal tests for syphilis (along with the Wassermann test and the VDRL test).

7. Venereal Disease Research Laboratory test - Wikipedia

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   The Venereal Disease Research Laboratory test (VDRL) is a blood test for syphilis and related non-venereal treponematoses that was developed by the eponymous US laboratory. The VDRL test is used to screen for syphilis (it has high sensitivity ), whereas other, more specific tests are used to diagnose the disease.