Female genital infections are usually spread through sexual contact, whether oral, anal or vaginal. The structure of the vagina makes women more susceptible to infection than men. Most cases are ...

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs), also known as sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), are often regarded as quite a taboo when it comes to getting medical help. These infections are highly ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients often received treatments that are not recommended by the CDC, particularly azithromycin. Keeping up ...

An ancient but treatable sexually transmitted disease is seeing a resurgence in Iowa. The state counted 877 new cases of syphilis in 2022 — a 209% increase compared with the 283 cases in 2018, ...

In an ideal world, teenagers would not be engaging in risky sexual activity and would not be catching sexually transmitted infections (STIs). But we do not live in an ideal world. And young people are ...

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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 ...