Sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates are continuing to increase, especially among young people in their teens and early twenties. From 2020 to 2021, we have seen rates rise...
Sexual health is important for wellbeing and reproductive health, and includes the prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment of urogenital infections in women. However, ...
While marijuana use may impact some genes linked to autism in men’s sperm, abstaining from cannabis consumption over time may significantly lower many of those effects, according...
In a new paper published in Nature, scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), describe...
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released a final recommendation on screening for chlamydia and gonorrhea. The task force recommends screening for these infections...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated treatment guidelines for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and said providers may consider opt-out screening...
When many social and healthcare service organizations had to shut their doors during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Baltimore City Health Department (BCHD...
Screening and testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) decreased by 63% for men and 59% for women during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new...
In a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the annual cases of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the United States was at a record high...