Every at-home STI test uses a vaginal swab. Testmate Health's urine-based test works for everyone. Lab-quality results in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Doctors say that home tests can be as accurate as getting tested in a lab if you get a good sample. (Getty Images) (MMilda via ...

Raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimized by a cotton swab. If you’ve ever had your throat swabbed for strep or your nose swabbed for COVID-19, I expect to see some hands! Now that ...

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 ...

While we might all think, ‘I’m safe, it’ll never happen to me’, recent reports show that STI diagnoses in England are on the rise, with those aged 15 to 24 seeing a 26% increase in diagnoses between ...

In the past few years, we’ve gotten very familiar with at-home rapid testing for COVID-19. In the midst of the pandemic, the need for another kind of health screening skyrocketed: Rates of STIs rose ...

If the COVID-19 pandemic taught us anything, it’s the value of testing for infection at home without the need to visit a health facility. Now a series of studies have found that testing for sexually ...

Anna Iovine is the associate editor of features at Mashable. Previously, as the sex and relationships reporter, she covered topics ranging from dating apps to pelvic pain. Before Mashable, Anna was a ...

Most people who have heard of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (more commonly known as CRISPR) associate it with gene editing—the precise molecular scissors that allow ...

I was lying under a blanket, enjoying a chill Friday evening when my phone buzzed. "Hey, you might wanna get tested," the text read. I sat bolt upright. The message was from the guy I'd been sleeping ...

The overall number of reported sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) has been on the rise since 2014, with infections disproportionately affecting young people under the age of 25, racial and ethnic ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - In a Health Advisory from February, the Maine CDC says in Penobscot County, an average of two new HIV cases has occurred every year for the past five years. This advisory says ...