There are an estimated 20 million new cases of sexually transmitted infections every year in the United States, says the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. While some forms of ...

When I was in school, we learned about STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) in health class. (Who could forget those terrible lists of symptoms and gross images they used to try to scare us, right?) ...

Public health has been top of mind for many the last couple of years, but a public health problem has largely flown under the radar: a growing rate of sexually transmitted diseases and infections. The ...

The STI Research Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has been recognized as a leader in the domestic and global STI research fields for several decades. High performing faculty and ...

Feel like you’re having problems down there? If you have health anxiety, your worries might start to wander from benign ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with David Harvey, executive director of the National Coalition of STD Directors, about how STD rates are soaring in the U.S. — especially syphilis, which is up 26%.

New diseases emerge all the time, and sexually transmitted infections, also known as sexually transmitted diseases, are no exception. Here are four bacteria that could become serious public health ...

The coronavirus pandemic may have masked a spike in sexually transmitted infections in Utah, where they had already been on the rise for years, health experts say. Statewide, the rates of positive ...

No one can deny that an uncleaned public toilet seat can be incredibly gross. Even so, it may be refreshing to know that the germs making their way onto the toilet seat or rim are unlikely to survive ...