SimplyTest® has launched a groundbreaking saliva-based test to detect high-risk strains of oral human papillomavirus (HPV), a major cause of oropharyngeal cancers. Designed for use in dental and ...

Scientists have fused acoustics and microfluidics in a novel saliva test designed to show within minutes whether a person has a high-risk strain of HPV associated with mouth and throat cancers.

Independent physician-owned pathology lab OmniPathology launched an oral lab-developed PCR test that detects HPV. The test, which involves a throat swab, can detect 14 high-risk strains of the virus, ...

Economic Factors and Access to Care Play a Role in Oral Health PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--An emerging new type of oral cancer in men has increased over the last 15 years. 1 The culprit is human ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA test for women 25 and older that can be used to determine whether these women should have additional ...

Recent years have witnessed a significant shift in our understanding of oral cancer causes. While tobacco and alcohol have traditionally dominated the conversation around risk factors, medical ...

One potential risk factor for getting oral infections with the human papillomavirus (HPV) may have been overlooked by researchers: giving it to yourself. In a new study, women who engaged in behaviors ...

Approaching the topic of orogenital transmission of human papillomavirus (HPV) with a woman presenting with a persistent cervicovaginal HPV infection is more problematic than it may seem. To not ...

A wide breadth of behaviors surrounding oral sex may affect the risk of oral HPV infection and of a virus-associated head and neck cancer that can be spread through this route, a new study led by ...