Sexually transmitted diseases or STDs (formerly called venereal diseases) are among the world's most common infectious diseases. These bacterial or viral diseases are spread through sexual contact.

Gonorrhea cases also declined in 2025, while chlamydia cases remained stable following COVID-era spikes in sexually transmitted diseases.

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 ...

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), also called sexually transmitted infections (STIs), are far more common than many ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STDs Are on the Rise in Midlife Women. New At-Home Testing Kits Can Help You Self-Diagnose In the last year, the FDA has approved ...

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 ...

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 ...