To reduce the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has proposed recommending a common antibiotic be taken after having unprotected sex. Under ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) – The month of April marks STD awareness month and the West Central Health District is offering preventative steps that can be taken to protect against STDs. In 2022, according to ...

NEW YORK — Some people should consider taking an antibiotic as a morning-after pill to try to prevent certain sexually transmitted diseases, U.S. health officials recommended Tuesday. The Centers for ...

Regular STD testing and treatment decrease your risk of getting or spreading infections. You can use protection like condoms to significantly lower your risk of transmission. Untreated STDs can lead ...

Georgia may want to consider improving its sex education and access to protection. Invigor Medical, a health and wellness clinic in Washington, took a deep dive into states' numbers of sexually ...

This story was reviewed by Kelly Brown MD, MBA. Wearing a condom is a great way to prevent pregnancy and the only option for protecting against STIs and STDs (besides abstinence). But they’re not ...

State and local health departments across the U.S found out in June they’d be losing the final two years of a $1 billion investment to strengthen the ranks of people who track and try to prevent ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - If you gathered 100 Mississippians in a room, statistically, at least 1 of them has an STD. The STD rate, depending on your source, is around 1,200 per 100,000 Mississippian, ...

Three North Carolina metro areas landed in the top 100 cities in the U.S. with the highest STD infection rates, according to a recent study. Innerbody, a healthcare research group, used data from the ...