Sacramento County currently ranks within the top 20 of chlamydia and syphilis cases in California. Here’s how the county is responding.

By the time the sun sets in Burkina Faso, swarms of mosquitoes rise with it—tiny, buzzing engines of one of the world’s ...

A federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing anti-diversity and anti-transgender ...

This article provides a comprehensive look at how healthcare settings can prevent the transmission of bloodborne pathogens ...

Hidradenitis suppurativa affects millions but takes 7 years to diagnose. Learn why doctors miss this painful skin condition and how to get proper treatment.

HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise in Harris County, according to a report released by Harris County Public Health on Tuesday. The report, which studied an eight-year ...

The first reported case of a sexually transmitted fungal infection in the United States was Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII (TMVII) in 2024. Other fungal infections can transmit through ...

01. At a time when the world is down to a single drug that can reliably cure gonorrhea, the U.S. government has shuttered the country’s premier sexually transmitted diseases laboratory ...

Watching a performance of Henrik Ibsen’s play Ghosts as an undergraduate, I was appalled by the dawning realization that young Oswald had congenital syphilis as collateral damage from his father ...

Bacterial vaginosis, a common vaginal infection also known as BV, has long been treated as a women’s condition; but a new study adds to evidence that it is a sexually transmitted infection and ...

Scientists have declared that a little-known bacterial condition is in fact a sexually transmitted infection (STI) that millions already have. Called bacterial vaginosis (BV), the intimate ...

Bacterial vaginosis is most likely a sexually transmitted infection, according to a new study. By Alisha Haridasani Gupta Bacterial vaginosis is a poorly understood infection that affects one in ...