THURSDAY, June 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Though not at numbers seen in the 2022 outbreak, mpox cases are still circulating in the United States, largely among gay and bisexual men, new government data shows. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the outbreak of mpox (formerly knownContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, June 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — In new guidelines released Tuesday, U.S. health officials now recommend that certain people take the antibiotic doxycycline as a morning-after pill to lower the risk of some sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The latest recommendations only apply to gay and bisexual men and transgenderContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The central African nation of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is battling a record number of cases of mpox, fueled by a strain with a higher death rate than the variant that spread in Europe and America in 2022. Getting the DRCContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An experimental gene therapy could one day provide a first-ever cure for genital and oral herpes, researchers report. The gene therapy removed 90% or more of oral herpes infection in lab mice, and it also suppressed how much virus an infected animal shed,Continue Reading
MONDAY, May 13, 2024 (HealthDay news) — Could being a lesbian or bisexual shorten your life? New research that analyzed decades of data on women suggests it might. What’s driving the trend? Researchers point to discrimination as the primary culprit. While there is a large body of research looking atContinue Reading
MONDAY, April 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Syphilis cases are on the rise in the United States, and doctors in Chicago say they are increasingly seeing cases that don’t display typical symptoms, such as rash or skin ulcers. Instead, patients are presenting with headaches or disruptions in their vision orContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A chlamydia vaccine has triggered immune responses in an early trial, raising hopes that one day it might help curb the spread of the sexually transmitted infection (STI). There is currently no vaccine for chlamydia, which is the most common bacterial STI inContinue Reading
MONDAY, April 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Vaccine protection against mpox fades quickly in the human immune system, even in people who’ve received the full two-dose regimen, a new real-world study shows. Antibody levels fell to low or near zero within the first few months of getting the vaccine, unlessContinue Reading
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