A new antibiotic has proven as effective as the last remaining recommended treatment for gonorrhea, helping to assuage mounting fears among public health experts about the emergence of drug-resistant ...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced on Thursday two cases of a novel strain of gonorrhea—one which is resistant to five classes of antibiotic treatment, and which health officials ...

Sexually transmitted infections rose again in 2021, after a slight dip during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Public health officials says they have found two cases of gonorrhea that appear to have reduced susceptibility to every kind of antibiotic available to treat them. It's the first time strains of ...

The New York City Health Department has announced an increase in gonorrhea and syphilis cases among Black and Latino females in New York City during the first half of 2021. The Health Department ...

Chlamydia and gonorrhea are the two most common sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States, impacting 2.4 million in 2021, and the number is rising. A recent study of individuals ages ...

Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by the Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacterium. It is one of the most ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients often received treatments that are not recommended by the CDC, particularly azithromycin. Keeping up ...

The rise in antibacterial resistance to common antibiotics has led to the growth of drug-resistant forms of gonorrhea, sometimes referred to as “super gonorrhea.” At the moment, just a handful of ...