PathAdvantage Team Results

Introducing Our New Vaginal Health Test: MyPathAdvantage

Our team at PathAdvantage is excited to announce the launch of a new service, developed to assist clinicians to best serve their patients. Introducing an at-home vaginal test kit called MyPathAdvantage. New At-Home Vaginal Health Test Option for...

HPV: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?

HPV: What Do We Know? While Human Papillomavirus, HPV, is one of the most researched and highly understood viruses in the medical community, there is no one-size-fits-all clinical presentation. Quite often, healthcare providers are faced...

My Pap Test Diagnosis Reads “bacteria consistent with Actinomyces species” — What Should I Do?

"My pap test diagnosis reads 'bacteria consistent with Actinomyces species' — what should I do?" At PathAdvantage, we are often asked the above question; we receive swabs for cultures of the vagina or an IUD (with request to...

Using P16: How, When, and Why

Providers and even patients may question why p16 appears so frequently on reports (and bills) when it comes to cervical/endocervical biopsies. The use of p16 in cervical biopsies improves the accuracy of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) diagnosis and...

Syphilis Testing: Which Test, Which Algorithm?

Syphilis testing can be a challenging exercise. Even the ‘Positive’ CDC testing algorithms terminate with ‘Presumptive diagnosis of Syphilis’ which sounds frustratingly ambiguous. Syphilis tests are available in two categories: treponemal tests...

A bit about Dr. Hopley

Richard Hopley was born and raised in England, where his first degree was a B.A. in Business Management. Although a significant portion of his early work life was spent in the hospitality industry, after moving to the US he decided to pursue a career in the...

A bit about Dr. Dang…

Linh Dang was born in Buffalo, although she spent the majority of her life in St Louis, Missouri. Part of the accelerated 6 year combined B.A./M.D. program, she graduated with a degree in liberal arts and medicine from the University of Missouri at Kansas...