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FDA Approves First At-Home STI Test For Women—How It Works And What You Need To Know

In a major advancement for women's health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted marketing authorization for the first home-based, nonprescription diagnostic test for three common ...
Forbes

Wisp Expands Women’s Health Platform With At-Home STI Testing And GLP-1 Care

As clinic access shrinks and provider shortages rise, Wisp—the largest pure-play women’s telehealth platform in the U.S., available in all 50 states—is betting big on home as the new front line of ...
MobiHealthNews

Nurx adds STI testing to its mail-order product suite

Nurx, the San Francisco-based startup best known for providing contraceptives via telemedicine, has just added a new home STI testing option to its slew of services. The new offerings, which were ...
Healio

Q&A: ‘Think more broadly’ with STI testing for all women with vaginitis

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . About one in five people who present with vaginitis symptoms also have at least one STI. CDC recommends ...
Medical Xpress

Researchers find at-home self-collection testing can expand STI and HPV screening

Researchers with UNC School of Medicine, Gillings School of Global Health, and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center collaborated on a new study that highlights a simple but effective way to improve ...
The Hindu

A guide to testing for sexually transmitted infections

While the digital boom has increased awareness and sparked conversations around sexual well-being in a post-Covid world, India is seeing a sharp rise in common sexually transmitted infections (STIs), ...
Healio

STI testing low among gay, bisexual men in initial private health facility visit

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Only about half of gay or bisexual men received the recommended STI testing for chlamydia, gonorrhea and ...
Reading Eagle

Clinic offering free STI testing and treatment opens in Reading

Novus Medical Services, a clinic that offers free STI testing, treatment and related services, celebrated the grand opening of its newest location in Reading. The clinic offers testing for HIV, ...
New York Post

Urgent itch? You can order this new STI test on DoorDash

Late-night cravings aren’t the only thing DoorDash can help with. Starting this week, women can order a first-of-its-kind, at-home swab test for three common sexually transmitted infections and have ...
clinicaladvisor.com

Quality Improvement Initiative Increases Staff Pediatric STI Testing Knowledge

A poster at NAPNAP 2026 presented the results of a quality improvement project aimed at increasing chlamydia and gonorrhea screening for patients aged 16 years and older. The project achieved a ...
Medscape

Low Rates Seen With Packaged STI Testing, With Substantial Racial, Ethnic, Age, and Insurance Status Disparities

Disparities in testing and in test positivity for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) suggest missed opportunities for screening, and the need for more targeted strategies to improve prevention of ...