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 ...

From Chlamydia to Gonorrhea, Read on to know the top 8 dangerous and highly contagious STDs in the world. Check out their ...

STDs are the poor consequences of bad protection during intercourse. People often avoid or forget about protection because they are under the belief that it is only needed to avoid unwanted ...

Simply put, because "STDs are biologically and psycho-socially sexist at all levels," said Dr. Hunter Handsfield, a professor emeritus of medicine at the University of Washington Center for AIDS and ...

The sexist nature of STDs can even follow a woman into the doctor’s office. “If a guy goes into a doctor’s office with a urethral discharge,” Handsfield said, “there are only a very small handful of ...

Just three months after having a normal physical examination, a young woman complains of lower-abdominal pain. What did her clinician miss? This is the second of a three-part series on sexually ...

Penile discharge is the abnormal loss of fluid that is not urine, or semen from the urethra (urine tube) at the tip of the penis. It is commonly the sign of a sexually transmitted disease (STD), and ...

Sex education is convoluted for many. But a post on social media claiming to educate gets some of the facts wrong. "You could be carrying trichomoniasis," says the post, which adds that the sexually ...

The idea that sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) always announce themselves with uncomfortable or visible symptoms is a dangerous misconception that health experts are working to correct. Research ...

Two lesions on the patient’s labia arouse suspicion of a second problem. An STD expert tracks down a diagnosis other clinicians might miss. This is the third of a three-part series on sexually ...

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are diseases that people usually contract through sexual activity, including manual stimulation. They are also commonly known as sexually transmitted infections ...