Blood donor screening is a fundamental component of modern healthcare, underpinning the safety and efficacy of blood transfusions across the globe. Rigorous screening protocols are designed to ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Antibodies to a high-risk type of a virus that causes mouth and throat cancers when transmitted via oral sex can be detected in blood tests many years before onset of the disease, ...

HHS specifically is calling on the public to evaluate how the department could design an “innovative and cost effective” pilot program to evaluate “alternative blood donor acceptance criteria for MSM.

Sex is more than just a pleasurable experience, it's an important part of one's mental and physical health. One of the essential elements of maintaining that health is monitoring for sexually ...

More than 2.5 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis were reported in the U.S. in 2021 — nearly 6% more than were reported in 2020. Syphilis rates, in particular, leapt to levels not seen ...

In the shadow of the monkeypox crisis, a related threat has been quietly working its way through the US population. Sexually transmitted diseases, which declined in the early months of the pandemic, ...

A new blood test uses a portable diagnostic system to detect various different diseases in just 15 minutes. The test could change the way we diagnose a wide range of infectious diseases. Here's what ...

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’s ...

Jessica was a writer on the Wellness team, with a focus on health technology, eye care, nutrition and finding new approaches to chronic health problems. Expertise Public health, new wellness ...