Health care providers should administer annual testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases to all of their male patients who have sex with other men, according to new CDC STD treatment and ...

The CDC is drafting recommendations to use doxycycline -- used to treat bacterial infections and prevent malaria -- to stave off STDs. AP A cheap antibiotic could help slow the growing US epidemic of ...

As STI rates reach record highs, the CDC is drafting recommendations for some people to take a "morning after" pill to prevent the transmission of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis infections Duncan ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than 1.64 million cases of chlamydia were reported to the CDC in 2021, making it the most common STD in the ...

In 2016, Americans were infected with more than 2 million new cases of gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia, the highest number of these sexually transmitted diseases ever reported, the Centers for ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The CDC is proposing the first morning after pill to protect against sexually transmitted infections. The morning after pill is usually associated with preventing pregnancy. Now, ...

Increases at the state level ranged from 18% to 369% between 2000 and 2020. Between 2019 and 2020, 10 states saw their rates climb. Since 2000, the number of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in ...

NEW YORK — U.S. health officials plan to endorse a common antibiotic as a morning-after pill that gay and bisexual men can use to try to avoid some increasingly common sexually transmitted diseases.

Several notable cities in Pennsylvania have emerged as hot spots for sexually transmitted diseases like gonorrhea, which is caused by the bacteria pictured and enlarged above. National Institute of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A new study reports that the number of sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S. has surged since 2000 — and according to the study’s findings, Oregon is the 14th state in the ...

There were more than 2.5 million cases of sexually transmitted infections in the United States in 2021, a record high, according to a new federal report. “The U.S. STI epidemic shows no signs of ...