Gonorrhea News

Health officials are warning the public about the potential danger of a particular strain of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea, which has been resistant to traditional antibiotic treatment.

San Francisco is using an unusual mascot to increase the sexual health of residents and raise awareness about sexually transmitted diseases.

A bill that would allow doctors in Nebraska to prescribe medication for the sexual partners of individuals with sexually transmitted diseases without seeing them has reached the governor's desk to be signed into law.

A bill that would make it permissible for doctors in Hawaii to prescribe medication to the partners of individuals with sexually transmitted diseases without examining them first continues to evolve.

Lawmakers in Nebraska are working to make it easier for doctors to treat sexually transmitted diseases.

Individuals with various sexually transmitted diseases now have more options when it comes to finding love online.

Recent data show new cases of gonorrhea are increasing in the U.K.

A new report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes some sobering statistics about sexually transmitted diseases.

A new study conducted by researchers at Michigan State University found that pregnant women who visit emergency rooms don't always receive the necessary treatment for sexually transmitted diseases.

The search for a new, more effective treatment for the STD gonorrhea is underway.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly half of the 19 million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) each year are among young people between the ages of 15 and 24.

While the use of sexual protection can reduce the spreading of diseases such as herpes and gonorrhea, not everyone is keen on the idea of using condoms during intercourse.

Recently, gonorrhea has become a priority among health officials in Maine as the number of instances of the disease continues to grow in the new year.

While it's true that certain sexual transmitted diseases (STDs) can be treated by a physician after they're diagnosed, experts now fear that certain strains of bacteria are becoming more resilient as they look to help those who are infected.

As more researchers continue to track the progression of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and raise awareness of available online STD testing, statistics on the prominences of STDs are making headlines.

Researchers and medical professionals have warned that gonorrhea has become far more resistant to treatment in recent years, and contraction rates have finally started to jump throughout the country.

According to NewsCenter1, STDs have become an increasingly tenuous public health problem in South Dakota.

Gonorrhea is already the second most reported sexually transmitted disease in the United States, but the bacterial infection may have just gotten a bit scarier for sexually active individuals.

In June 2012, the World Health Organization proclaimed that there were strains of gonorrhea circulating around the globe that were resistant to many antibiotics typically used to cure the sexually transmitted disease (STD).