Syphilis spreads primarily through vaginal, anal or oral sex, Shen explains. Condoms greatly reduce risk, but they do not ...

UK public health officials have identified a new recombinant strain of mpox in an individual who had recently travelled to ...

For some people, getting up to pee once at night feels normal. You go to bed, wake up briefly to use the toilet and fall straight back asleep. But if you are waking several times every night, a ...

Dr Alastair Hepburn and Dr Ho Juen Ko outline a rational approach to testing when investigating joint pains in a young adult ...

The WHO has labeled drug-resistant gonorrhea a serious and urgent public health threat. If left untreated, gonorrhea ...

The UKHSA has detected an inter-clade recombinant mpox virus in England; vaccines remain effective and risk to the public is ...

Recurrent infections do not usually permanently change bladder behaviour. It is often the underlying condition causing the ...

A Canadian flight attendant, Gaëtan Dugas, was wrongly blamed as 'Patient Zero' for the AIDS epidemic. This damaging myth ...

Health authorities in Spain have identified the first confirmed case of human-to-human transmission of mpox clade 1b outside ...

The emergency room is, well, for actual emergencies. If you’re badly hurt or your life is in danger, you must go to the ER. Otherwise, if you’re fine, you shouldn’t tie up doctors’ and nurses’ ...

Bower agreed. He said that some patients leave urgent care or other medical facilities determined to “tough it out” rather ...

For several years, pre-exposure prophylaxis against HIV (PrEP) has been a major success in preventing new cases. However, ...