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Bundled Rapid HIV/Hep C Testing May Improve Infection Awareness

Bundled HIV, hepatitis C testing ups number of people with substance use disorders aware of infection status
Expanding COVID-19 symptom screening criteria to include myalgias and chills could identify more health care personnel with the illness

Expanding Symptom Screening Criteria Can Up COVID-19 Detection

Even with addition of myalgia, chills, about 10 percent of health care personnel with COVID-19 would be missed
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved emergency use of the first COVID-19 test that enables patients to take samples at home.

FDA Authorizes COVID-19 Test That Uses Samples Collected at Home

After self-swabbing to collect their nasal sample, patients mail their sample to a LabCorp lab
About one in four cases of colorectal cancer in patients aged 40 to 49 years meet family history-based criteria for early screening

Family History-Based Early Screen Could ID More Young-Onset CRC

Almost all who met criteria for early screening could have initiated screening before age of diagnosis
The first COVID-19 tests in the United States were ineffective due to poor laboratory practices at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Lab Protocol Failures Led to Ineffective COVID-19 Tests From CDC

Researchers entered and left COVID-19 labs without changing their coats, resulting in contamination of tests
Cervical cancer screening rates in Japan were significantly lower in the years following the devastating Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011

Cervical Cancer Screening Rates May Be Impacted by Disasters

In Japan, cervical cancer screening rates decreased in areas affected by 2011 earthquake and tsunami
There has been such a drop in demand for coronavirus disease 2019 tests at private labs in the United States that they have "considerable" unused capacity and can test more patients with less severe symptoms

Sharp Drop in Demand Seen for COVID-19 Tests at Private Labs

Private labs conduct the vast majority of testing for COVID-19 in the United States
Researchers say they have developed a low-cost swab test that can diagnose coronavirus disease 2019 infections in about 45 minutes.

CRISPR-Based Test Can Diagnose COVID-19 in Under 60 Minutes

Like other tests, this one can detect COVID-19 in samples from respiratory swabs
Hepatitis C screening is recommended for all adults and for all pregnant women

Hep C Screening Recommended for Adults, Pregnant Women

Annual rate of reported acute hepatitis C cases up from 0.3 per 100,000 population in 2009 to 1.2 in 2018
The first saliva test for coronavirus 2019 was approved Monday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

First Saliva Test for COVID-19 Approved by FDA

Patients spit into plastic tube and then give the tube back to health care worker for laboratory testing