Experts say that overuse of antibiotics has led to antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea. (Getty Images) That’s concerning given that almost half of U.S. gonorrhea infections in 2022 were resistant to at ...

New options for testing and treating some of the most common sexually transmitted diseases are becoming available.

A new, untreatable strain of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea has been discovered in Japan, according to an international team of infectious disease experts. The strain, named H041, is ...

A new strain of gonorrhea has emerged, causing significant concern among health professionals due to its resistance to traditional treatments. This sexually transmitted infection, caused by bacteria ...

Alaska has long had the distinction of having the nation’s highest or nearly highest rates of gonorrhea. Now there is another troublesome trend among those who contract the sexually transmitted ...

(CNN) — A new type of antibiotic for treatment of urinary tract infections in women could also work against gonorrhea infections, a new study finds. This could put the medication, called gepotidacin, ...

Gonococcal conjunctivitis (GC) is an eye infection caused by the bacterium responsible for gonorrhea. It can be transmitted from the person giving birth to the newborn during vaginal delivery or ...

A woman in her 50s died from a rare complication of the bacterial STI this spring, the latest in a recent spike of similar cases in the state. Reading time 3 minutes A well-known sexually transmitted ...

It sounds more like a villain straight out of a comic book, but “super-gonorrhea” — better known as antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea — is real. Canada recently reported a rise in the persistent ...