Some strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacteria that causes the sexually transmitted infection (STI) gonorrhea, have ...

Gonorrhea became increasingly difficult to treat as it developed resistance to existing antibiotics. Cases of drug-resistant ...

Phoebe Health System is expanding its sexually transmitted disease (STD) testing services to all of its five urgent care ...

The Massachusetts Public Health Laboratory is accustomed to strong support from the CDC. Now it is learning to go it alone.

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A new antibiotic called gepotidacin may soon offer a better way to treat gonorrhea, especially as traditional treatments ...

The CDC also fired all 28 scientists in its Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) lab, which tracked infections like ...

The only lab in the U.S. capable of testing for and tracking antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea, or “super gonorrhea,” was ...

In 2024, DHS received 31,576 reports of STIs (syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia). Of these infections ... For more information about STI testing, prevention, and treatment, contact your health care ...

Sexually transmitted infection testing is no longer free at county health departments due to recent federal cuts to COVID-19 ...

The news comes just as two national laboratories that did testing for rare forms of hepatitis and drug-resistant sexually transmitted diseases were forced to close following government cuts.