The spread of drug-resistant gonorrhea has led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to change its guidelines for treating that infection in gay men, but not in heterosexuals. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gonorrhea is on the rise in the U.S. (Photo: Getty Images) (Getty / Nadeen Nakib for Yahoo Life) Cases of gonorrhea are ...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced on Thursday two cases of a novel strain of gonorrhea—one which is resistant to five classes of antibiotic treatment, and which health officials ...

Chlamydia and gonorrhea are the two most common sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States, impacting 2.4 million in 2021, and the number is rising. A recent study of individuals ages ...

(HealthDay)—Gonorrhea appears to be developing resistance to the two antibiotics that constitute the last available treatment option for the sexually transmitted bacteria, U.S. health officials ...

Gonorrhea is a common sexually transmitted disease (STD) but it can lead to health complications such as chronic pelvic pain, infertility and ectopic pregnancy if it is left untreated. In the United ...

Gonorrhea infections that are resistant to fluoroquinolones have become so widespread that the CDC recommends clinicians stop using this class of antibiotics and switch to ceftriaxone (Rocephin), an ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) no longer recommends antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones (ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, and levofloxacin) as a treatment for gonorrhea in the United ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gonorrhea in the United States is now resistant to all but one class of antibiotic drugs, threatening doctors' ability to treat the common sexually transmitted disease, ...

The United States is experiencing a "steep and sustained" spike in sexually transmitted diseases, a new government analysis shows. Cases of gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia all increased in 2017, ...