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Unless mothers are treated during pregnancy, newborns can sicken, die or face lifelong disabilities. The CDC is urging public health providers to connect more people to testing and medication.
Unless mothers are treated during pregnancy, newborns can sicken, die or face lifelong disabilities. The CDC is urging public health providers to connect more people to testing and medication.
A new antibiotic has proven as effective as the last remaining recommended treatment for gonorrhea, helping to assuage mounting fears among public health experts about the emergence of drug-resistant strains of the sexually transmitted infection.
Draft CDC guidelines recommend doxycycline for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections in some populations
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Dr. Edward Hook — director of the STD Control Program for the Jefferson County Department of Health — spoke to PEOPLE about the recent uptick in syphilis cases