When a national study released in March found one in four girls aged 14 to 19 are infected with at least one sexually transmitted disease, some parents and teenagers were shocked. But physicians and ...

Rates of sexually transmitted diseases have risen for the fourth consecutive year to a record high, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But Northwestern hasn’t changed its ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the importance of programs that test for communicable diseases and help prevent their spread. These same lessons should be applied to sexually transmitted diseases, ...

Reports of rises in STDs such as chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis for the fourth consecutive year can be evidently linked to the inaccurate and low number of high school sex-ed classes in high ...

(KUTV) Utah's gonorrhea rates are up more than 700 percent for women in the last few years. Overall the numbers have jumped nearly 400 percent. The startling statistics have the state and local health ...

SALT LAKE COUNTY — The Salt Lake County Health Department has released its annual disease report, and sexually transmitted diseases are at the top of the list. The department’s 2018 Infectious ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Arkansas remains one of just a handful of states without legal requirements for sex education in the midst of rising cases of sexually transmitted diseases. In 2018, the Centers ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Some barbershops and salons across St. Louis are offering more than just a hair transformation – they’re offering STD and HIV education. Nearly a dozen shops have a partnership with ...

It’s no secret among doctors and other health-care professionals that sexually transmitted infections are on the rise in the U.S. and other countries. As a urologist, I have certainly noticed an ...

The city of St. Louis, Missouri is turning to barbers and hairstylists in their new initiative to battle sexually-transmitted diseases in the community. While St. Louis has some of the highest STD ...

MANKATO — Year after year Blue Earth County ranks highly in an undesirable metric. The county’s chlamydia rate is consistently within the top five among all Minnesota counties in annual sexually ...

Many Ghanaian preteens can name HIV but remain unaware of other sexually transmitted diseases, revealing deep gaps in sex ...