CNN

There’s one crucial step to your Covid self-test you may be missing, experts say

Testing yourself for coronavirus infection can be more convenient than getting a clinic or lab test, but from a public health standpoint, experts say there’s at least one key downside. In the US, ...
Health Affairs

Reporting COVID-19 Self-Test Results: The Next Frontier

Self-tests for COVID-19, also referred to as home or over-the-counter (OTC) tests, are becoming widely available in the U.S. and throughout the world. Self-tests allow people to test frequently and ...
Business Wire

Siemens Healthineers Announces FDA Emergency Use Authorization For CLINITEST® Rapid COVID-19 Antigen Self-Test

The CLINITEST Rapid COVID-19 Antigen Self-Test has received FDA EUA for unsupervised self-testing for the SARS-CoV-2 virus by individuals age 14 and older (or adult-collected samples from individuals ...
STAT

HPV self-collection tests must be approved for use at home

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 ...
Live Science

New self-swab HPV test is an alternative to Pap smears. Here's how it works.

There's a new way to screen for high-risk HPV, a viral infection that can lead to cervical cancer. This alternative method of collecting samples for cervical cancer screening doesn't require a ...
ABC News

Self-swab HPV test set to arrive in doctors' offices this month

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 ...
STAT

HIV self-testing is easy, effective — and underutilized

Assoumou is an infectious diseases physician-scientist at Boston Medical Center. Miller is a research data associate within Dr. Assoumou’s I-CARE (Infectious Complications Assessment and Research) lab ...