No one wants to hear that they’ve contracted a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Having one can mean discomfort, inconvenience, potential embarrassment and often requires putting intimacy on hold ...

Experts say that overuse of antibiotics has led to antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea. (Getty Images) That’s concerning given that almost half of U.S. gonorrhea infections in 2022 were resistant to at ...

Doctors are alarmed over a new strain of gonorrhea — a common sexually transmitted infection — that is almost incurable. And gonorrhea rates continue to climb: The Centers for Disease Control and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Massachusetts health officials detected a novel strain of gonorrhea with reduced susceptibility or resistance to ...

"Getting tested for STIs on a regular basis is an important action that all New Yorkers can take to optimize their health," ...

Doctors have been disappointed more than once in their high hopes of eradicating gonorrhea with wonder drugs, but last week the U.S. Public Health Service reported that before the end of 1963 the anti ...

We thought we were safe. The flu season was tapering off. Spring was in the air (sort of, some places). As flu cases flatlined through January and February, Americans breathed a sigh of relief, kicked ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified previously unknown genetic mechanisms that promote antimicrobial resistance ...

Gonococcal conjunctivitis (GC) is an eye infection caused by the bacterium responsible for gonorrhea. It can be transmitted from the person giving birth to the newborn during vaginal delivery or ...

Gonorrhea is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, according to new data from the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO’s Enhanced Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme (EGASP) ...

What is chlamydia? Chlamydia is the most commonly reported STD, infecting more than one million Americans each year. What are the symptoms of chlamydia? Called the silent STD, chlamydia infections ...