For years, bacterial vaginosis has been treated as a simple imbalance in the vaginal microbiome, but a groundbreaking study ...

For some women, bacterial vaginosis, or BV, is such a common occurrence that they find themselves regularly dealing with the ...

Bacterial vaginosis, which affects nearly 1 in 3 women, should be considered a sexually transmitted disease, according to a ...

A common vaginal infection affecting nearly one in three reproductive-aged women worldwide should be reclassified as a ...

Kelly had a "concern about chlamydia," McGrath wrote in notes from ... and saw that Kelly was responding well to Valtrex, a drug used to treat the virus. "Over time, the patient had complaints ...

It affects about 1 in 14 people. Prescription antibiotics are the only approved treatment. Appropriate care is important because chlamydia can cause permanent damage to the reproductive system.

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), also known as sexually transmitted infections (STIs) or venereal diseases, are infections spread primarily through ...

New research published in The New England Journal of Medicine reveals bacterial vaginosis is a sexually transmitted disease, advocating for joint treatment of both male and female partners to ...