No one wants to hear that they’ve contracted a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Having one can mean discomfort, inconvenience, potential embarrassment and often requires putting intimacy on hold ...

Many people never develop symptoms, which makes it easy to pass the infection unknowingly. No. Many people never develop symptoms, especially women. Up to 50% of women may not notice signs at all, ...

CHAPEL HILL – Between 1997 and 1998, undiagnosed gonorrhea and chlamydia infections occurred in a combined one in 12, or 7.9 percent, of young adults ages 18 to 35 in Baltimore, a surprisingly high ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neisseria gonorrhoeae is the type of bacteria that causes gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted infection. - Center for Disease ...

A new class of antibiotic has been found to be safe and effective in treating gonorrhea in late-stage trials, according to a new study published Monday in The Lancet. The drug, called gepotidacin, ...

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 ...

Gepotidacin, an investigational antibiotic, proved noninferior to dual therapy for the treatment of uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhea, according to results of the phase III EAGLE-1 trial. The ...

For the first time in decades, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has signed off on new antibiotics to fight gonorrhea. The approvals come at a critical moment: The sexually transmitted infection ...