Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the U.S., rates of reported gonorrhea have increased 118% from 2009 to 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Birth control pills are said to be over 99% effective at preventing pregnancy, when taken at the exact same time every day.

Changes in gut microbiome diversity are observed with certain antibiotic drugs years later, even after just one course of ...

The recommendation says 200 milligrams of doxycycline must be taken within 72 hours of sexual intercourse in order to be effective. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is poised to ...

Some people should consider taking an antibiotic as a morning-after pill to try to prevent certain sexually transmitted diseases, U.S. health officials recommended Tuesday. The Centers for Disease ...

U.S. health officials plan to endorse a common antibiotic as a morning-after pill that gay and bisexual men can use to try to avoid some increasingly common sexually transmitted diseases. The proposed ...

A pill developed by GSK was found to be safe and effective in treating gonorrhea in a late-stage clinical trial, according to a study published Monday in The Lancet. If approved, it would become the ...

A new way of designing antibiotics could support the discovery of new treatments for drug-resistant infections.

Scientists create new antibiotic that could help treat drug resistant infections - Antibiotic resistance is responsible for ...

Drug-resistant infections are a major public health threat around the world. To fight them, scientists are constantly trying ...

A research team from Kiel University has demonstrated which specific cellular mechanisms lead to the targeted weakening of ...