This article originally appeared on Undark. Perhaps for no group does the specter of sexually transmitted diseases loom larger than it does for young people. At the beginning of the last decade, youth ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three STDs — gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis — have reached an all-time high in the U.S., according to a Centers for Disease ...
We all remember when Coach Carr from Mean Girls said, “Don’t have sex, because you will get pregnant and die.” Of course, that’s total B.S., and so are many things you’ve heard about sex and sexually ...
April is sexually transmitted disease (STD) awareness month, an annual effort aimed at educating the public about prevention, treatment and risk reduction. STDs are serious problems affecting both ...
Despite increased education and awareness, the rate of sexually transmitted diseases in America is slowly rising. In fact, STDs cost the U.S. health care system roughly $16 billion each year, ...
The United States is experiencing a "steep and sustained" spike in sexually transmitted diseases, a new government analysis shows. Cases of gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia all increased in 2017, ...
Experts voiced support for the nomination of Erica Schwartz, MD, MPH, JD, a deeply credentialed physician with public health experience and a history of supporting vaccines, to be the next director of ...
Sexually transmitted diseases or STDs (formerly called venereal diseases) are among the world's most common infectious diseases. These bacterial or viral diseases are spread through sexual contact.
Cases of some sexually transmitted diseases have reached an all-time high, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From 2014 to 2015, there was a 6% increase in ...