When I heard about home testing for sexually transmitted diseases, I was intrigued. Who doesn't despise that particularly awkward conversation with their doctor? And who doesn't want to skip the ...

Up to half of sexually active young people will get a sexually transmitted disease by the time they are 25, yet many don’t seek testing because it may be difficult, costly or embarrassing. Public ...

Sexually transmitted diseases are no joke, and recent statistics from the Center for Disease Control suggest that they’re on the rise all throughout the USA. Gonorrhea, syphilis, and chlamydia are ...

This take-home kit, which most recently became available at Target, Walmart and Amazon, was created by co-founders Lora Ivanova and Ursula Hessenflow. With the CDC reporting that nearly half of ...

Among the more remarkable legacies of the COVID-19 pandemic is how quickly federal regulators, the health care industry, and consumers moved to make at-home testing a reliable tool for managing a ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Now that we can order almost everything online, one entrepreneur wants to take a page out of the tech playbook to ease a certain awkward visit to the doctor: getting tested for ...

It’s the subject no one wants to discuss: sexually transmitted diseases. And even fewer want to have an in-depth conversation with their doctor or nurse about them. So, to many who are worried, the ...

Young women in four Bay Area counties can now test themselves at home for sexually transmitted infections, and then get the results and any needed prescriptions without ever visiting a doctor's office ...

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COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — The Alabama Department of Public Health announced today that its STD/HIV at-home specimen collection initiative has been renewed. The testing kits will be available for order ...