Evvy, a girls’s well being startup, has launched an at-home take a look at for urinary tract an infection (UTI), the corporate introduced Tuesday.
New York Metropolis-based Evvy is a direct-to-consumer firm. Its flagship product is an at-home vaginal microbiome take a look at, which checks for micro organism and fungi (or microbes) in folks’s vaginas. Its new UTI+ Check is a urine take a look at that leverages polymerase chain response (PCR) know-how to detect 12 uropathogens and 7 antibiotic-resistance genes.
Customers gather their urine pattern after which ship it to Evvy’s lab. The corporate then gives leads to one enterprise day, and an Evvy clinician can supply same-day prescription pickup. For the reason that take a look at determines each the particular pathogen and the resistance markers of the an infection, it makes it simpler for the supplier to establish which medicine is more likely to work, in keeping with Priyanka Jain, co-founder and CEO of Evvy.
“Every thing is finished totally at dwelling, with no clinic go to or ready room required,” she stated. “For folks coping with recurrent UTIs, the UTI+ Check additionally pairs seamlessly with Evvy’s Vaginal Well being Check to disclose whether or not the vaginal microbiome could also be contributing to ongoing signs.”
The take a look at is presently accessible within the U.S. at $248, or $218 for these with an Evvy subscription. It isn’t presently accessible in Alaska, Hawaii or New York. Its vaginal microbiome take a look at begins at $129.
Evvy launched the UTI take a look at as a result of the “present commonplace of take care of UTIs is basically damaged,” Jain declared. UTIs are the commonest an infection in girls within the U.S., however almost half of girls are prescribed an antibiotic which may not work. About one in 4 girls face recurring infections.
“Commonplace urine cultures usually fail sufferers: they’ll take days and miss the vast majority of pathogens. That results in incorrect antibiotics, delays in care, and a cycle of signs that come again repeatedly. … As a result of rising analysis reveals micro organism from the vaginal microbiome can seed the urinary tract — and since 47% of Evvy customers with latest UTIs had UTI-related micro organism of their vaginal microbiome — we felt a duty to convey a extra exact, compassionate, and science-forward resolution to UTI care,” Jain stated.
She added that for many years, girls have been instructed that UTIs “simply occur” or are “unhealthy luck,” however in the end, what girls really want is “higher science, higher diagnostics and higher care.”
This announcement comes after Evvy launched fertility insights via its vaginal microbiome take a look at in March. In August, a peer-reviewed examine on the corporate additionally discovered that Evvy improves the prognosis and therapy of bacterial vaginosis, with 75.5% of sufferers reporting symptom aid at 4 weeks.
There are different vaginal microbiome testing corporations as effectively, together with Juno Bio. This firm additionally gives at-home testing and entry to one-on-one teaching.
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