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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — – Every year about 20 million Americans are infected with a sexually transmitted disease. But a challenge with diagnosing STDs is that people are often embarrassed to get tested.

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Well, we all know working from home became the big thing in 2020, now there is a different kind of test you can take from home too. The Alabama Department of Public Health ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Department of ...