Home health tests bought by people seeking answers about their conditions could give inaccurate and misleading results and require much greater regulation to ensure they are safe, reliable, and ...

At-home test kits, also known as at-home medical tests or self-tests, are kits that you can purchase online, at supermarkets, or at your local pharmacy and use to detect or monitor certain diseases ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a kit that will allow women to collect their own vaginal sample for HPV screening, a move that could increase early detection in those at risk for ...

ST. LOUIS – There is a new option available for cervical cancer screening for women 30 years of age. The U.S. Health Preventative Services Task Force has endorsed self-testing to help reduce cancer ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Shelby County Health Department is taking new steps to make HIV testing easier and more private. The department just launched a program that lets Memphis and Shelby County ...

Mitchell is an associate professor at the University of Virginia and an NIH-funded nurse scientist. Kueter, a former health journalist and public radio reporter, works as a magazine editor at UVA ...

The test will allow people to self-collect samples in health care settings. One of the first tests that allows patients to self-collect samples to screen for human papillomavirus (HPV) will soon be ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. regulators have approved the first cervical cancer testing kit that allows women to collect their own sample at home before shipping it to a laboratory, according to a medical device ...

KUALA LUMPUR - The Medical Device Authority (MDA) has not registered any Influenza self-test kits so far because most of them detect the presence of the virus using saliva samples. Deputy Health ...

Kenya will now manufacture its first end-to-end rapid diagnostic self-test kits, ending over-reliance on imports after Revital Healthcare, a medical devices manufacturer, opened a production plant in ...