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A vaccine targeting gonorrhea will soon be rolled out on the NHS. This will make England and Wales the first two countries in ...
We are running out of ways to treat gonorrhea, the World Health Organization announced today. The U.N. health agency released new guidelines warning doctors that it no longer recommends an entire ...
Two cases of a worrisome new strain of gonorrhea that’s proven resistant to antibiotics have been discovered, according to Massachusetts health officials. While both patients improved after ...
A new type of antibiotic for treatment of urinary tract infections in women could also work against gonorrhea infections, a new study finds. This could put the medication, called gepotidacin ...
The most highly drug-resistant cases of gonorrhea detected in the US to date appeared in two unrelated people in Massachusetts, state health officials announced Thursday. The cases mark the first ...
Doctors may be failing to detect large numbers of gonorrhea and chlamydia infections in women if they don't test patients' throats and rectums for the sexually transmitted diseases, researchers at ...
Gonorrhea is one tough germ to beat. Over the past 70 years, the bug has outwitted four classes of antibiotics, leaving just one set of drugs available to kill it. Now there's more evidence that ...
Alaska has long had the distinction of having the nation’s highest or nearly highest rates of gonorrhea. Now there is another troublesome trend among those who contract the sexually transmitted ...
The United States can no longer keep tabs on drug-resistant gonorrhea, among other infections, scientists said. By Apoorva Mandavilli Drug-resistant gonorrhea, a form of the widespread sexually ...