If you have sex—oral, anal, or vaginal intercourse and genital touching—you can get an STD, also called a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Straight or gay, married or single, you're vulnerable to ...

A Johns Hopkins infectious disease expert is advising sexually active women over age 40 to be screened for a common STD, trichomonas. New evidence has found this infection is more than twice as common ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Public health experts were alarmed to see a surge of common sexually transmitted diseases – now referred to as sexually ...

The idea that sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) always announce themselves with uncomfortable or visible symptoms is a dangerous misconception that health experts are working to correct. Research ...

While the vast majority of STIs don’t cause symptoms, some cause signs that you really can’t miss. Of course, those symptoms vary from one STI to another, says Khalil Ghanem, MD, PhD, an associate ...

Regular STD testing and treatment decrease your risk of getting or spreading infections. You can use protection like condoms to significantly lower your risk of transmission. Untreated STDs can lead ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published its sexually transmitted infections report for 2022, and Florida landed above the national average for all STIs except chlamydia. The CDC ...

Mississippi leads the nation in the rates of sexually transmitted diseases, and one is in the spotlight because the state is working to stop the spread, particularly from mom to baby. Overall, Invigor ...

Public health experts were alarmed to see a surge of common sexually transmitted diseases – now referred to as sexually transmitted infections (STIs) – during the last two years of the COVID-19 ...