The infection is not fatal but can cause permanent scarring. Medical experts are warning doctors and the public of a highly contagious rare fungal strain after a sexually transmitted ringworm has ...

A woman in her 50s died from a rare complication of the bacterial STI this spring, the latest in a recent spike of similar ...

Health experts are warning of new and highly contagious fungal strains after an NYC man in his 30s developed a sexually transmitted form of ringworm — the first reported case in the US.

Syphilis is a bacterial sexually transmitted infection that, if left untreated, can lead to serious health issues, the World Health Organization states. It is transmitted during oral, ...

Health officials say a woman died this spring from a disseminated gonococcal infection, a rare but severe complication of ...

The first case of a sexually transmitted fungal infection, Trichophyton mentagrophytes type VII, has been found in the United States. The illness is a type of ringworm that is hard to treat and ...

Sexually transmitted infection rates rose in 2021, ... accounted for 1.6 million of the more than 2.5 million reported cases of sexually transmitted infections nationwide in 2021.

A new “opt-out” approach to sexually transmitted infection testing at Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino ...

A lawsuit filed on Monday in Jackson County alleges that University Health failed to protect a former patient from sexual ...

Skin-on-skin transmission during sex is a sexually transmitted infection. In the U.S., we have trouble talking about sex in general and gay sex in particular.

It comes as experts warned the level of sexually transmitted infections in England remains a "big threat to sexual wellbeing" ...