THURSDAY, March 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A strain of highly antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea first emerged in China in 2016, and cases of this tough-to-treat infection have tripled there in just five years, Chinese researchers report. It’s a warning to the rest of the world, they said. Strains resistant to theContinue Reading
THURSDAY, March 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Mpox cases are climbing again in the United States, with the number of reported infections now twice as high as they were at this time last year, new government data shows. In response, public health experts have raised alarms about the increase andContinue Reading
THURSDAY, March 7, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Put down that donut and lay off the pasta: New research finds you’re less sexy after gorging on refined carbs. French researchers presented heterosexual adults with photos of an opposite-sex person who two hours earlier had eaten a breakfast rich in refined carbohydrates.Continue Reading
TUESDAY, March 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Just one dose of the antibiotic doxycycline taken after sex halved the number of chlamydia and syphilis cases in San Francisco, promising new research shows. In the study, gay and bisexual men and transgender women who had a history of sexually transmitted infectionsContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An outbreak of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) across Europe and North America made headlines in 2022. According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the 2022 outbreak of mpox (formerly called monkeypox) in the United States involved 31,698 knownContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — New research finds the 2022 mpox outbreak among gay and bisexual men began to slow down after just a few months — even though just 8% of high-risk people had received the mpox vaccine. That suggests that it was changes in gay andContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Well-to-do American families are more likely than poorer families to increase their children’s risk of cervical cancer by skipping the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, a new study has found. Nearly two-thirds of well-off parents (65%) do not intend to seek out the HPVContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Women with HIV experience accelerated DNA aging, potentially leading to poorer physical function sooner in life than expected, a new study says. Markers of aging measured in blood revealed that women with HIV age faster than their chronological age, according to results publishedContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Is ‘practice makes perfect’ true for the male erection, too? That’s the suggestion from a Swedish study involving amorous male mice. It found that getting erections regularly was important to the rodents’ overall erectile function. The key seemed to lie in connective tissueContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — U.S. cases of syphilis have soared past numbers seen just a decade ago, new government statistics show. The grim numbers are for 2022, the latest year for which an accurate tally is available. More than 202,000 cases were recorded among Americans that yearContinue Reading