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 ...

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 ...

Sexually transmitted diseases are both surprisingly common and widely misunderstood. But it's important that we're given the lowdown to dispel some myths. So join me on a journey down below, into the ...

Sexually Transmitted Disease Cases Fall, but Not Syphilis in Newborns NEW YORK (AP) — Sexually transmitted disease rates for U.S. adults fell last year, but syphilis in newborns continued to rise, ...

New cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis spiked nearly 10 percent in 2017, continuing a four-year trend of rising sexually transmitted diseases fueled by a lack of awareness and changing sexual ...

The number of sexually transmitted diseases continues to increase in the United States. Even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2.5 million cases of STDs were reported in 2021. According to the ...

As funding for state and local health services fall, STDs continue to rise. Sexually transmitted infections hit a record high 2.4 million cases in 2018, making it the fifth year in a row that cases of ...

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, ...

Various news outlets in the U.K. have reported that an emerging sexually transmitted disease, Mycoplasma genitalium (MG), is on the rise—and is sometimes resistant to antibiotic treatment. The ...

For years, researchers have known that the human skin is home to a diverse community of microorganisms, collectively known as the skin microbiome. Now a new study has shown that individuals with a ...

There’s a nasty sexually transmitted disease that can cause your genitals to rot away – but you’ve probably never heard of it. The super-rare bug, donovanosis, is usually found in tropical countries ...

Art historians say the most famous painting of congenital syphilis is “The Inheritance” by Norwegian expressionist painter Eduard Munch, who in 1899 shocked European audiences by showing a young ...