But sending an e-card telling someone to get tested for STDs may be a public health courtesy. Since 2004, a free Web site, inSpot.org has allowed users to anonymously notify their partners to get ...

A new study has exposed the sexual health habits of some Americans. Researchers analyzed data from the U.S. Census Bureau to determine how and where Americans have been contracting and spreading STIs ...

Among the more remarkable legacies of the COVID-19 pandemic is how quickly federal regulators, the health care industry, and consumers moved to make at-home testing a reliable tool for managing a ...

As the United States reckons with a burgeoning sexually transmitted disease crisis, a broadening chorus of public health experts are calling for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to ...

Data published Tuesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that rates of sexually transmitted diseases in the United States decreased in the early months of the Covid-19 ...

Everyone knows condoms prevent pregnancy and protect against sexually transmitted diseases. But how well do they work? Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

Doctors have been closely monitoring a rise in certain sexually transmitted diseases, including syphilis, a bacterial infection that comes with a range of symptoms. "You can have symptoms from a ...

Inside the glassy waiting room of a Hollywood clinic, a 33-year-old man sat and listened for his number to be called over the beats of a Mariah Carey song. “It’s just really easy. You don’t have to ...

A patient holds a sample test tube for Chlamydia testing. Rodolfo Parulan Jr. Last year, as cases of Covid-19 spread across her Houston community, public health official Guadalupe Valdovinos was ...

After sexually transmitted diseases fell during the early months of pandemic lockdowns and social distancing, the U.S. saw a resurgence of some of the most common infections through the end of 2020, ...

While the world was contending with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, sexually transmitted diseases were causing their own brand of stateside chaos, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...