The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the importance of programs that test for communicable diseases and help prevent their spread. These same lessons should be applied to sexually transmitted diseases, ...

MANKATO — Year after year Blue Earth County ranks highly in an undesirable metric. The county’s chlamydia rate is consistently within the top five among all Minnesota counties in annual sexually ...

When a national study released in March found one in four girls aged 14 to 19 are infected with at least one sexually transmitted disease, some parents and teenagers were shocked. But physicians and ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — A rapid increase in sexually transmitted diseases across the nation has health experts alarmed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its 2018 STD ...

The city of St. Louis, Missouri is turning to barbers and hairstylists in their new initiative to battle sexually-transmitted diseases in the community. While St. Louis has some of the highest STD ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Arkansas remains one of just a handful of states without legal requirements for sex education in the midst of rising cases of sexually transmitted diseases. In 2018, the Centers ...

(KUTV) Utah's gonorrhea rates are up more than 700 percent for women in the last few years. Overall the numbers have jumped nearly 400 percent. The startling statistics have the state and local health ...

“One of the things we really focus on is when there is a new incidence or case of an STD, we try to notify that person’s partner as quickly as possible by making the patient feel comfortable in ...

When eight high school students are commissioned to make a graphic novel about sexual health, don’t be surprised if the result includes pet dragons, a troll with genital warts and a guy named Funk ...

Bexar County has an STD problem. And it’s not going away anytime soon. Texas’ Department of State Health Services documented 18,125 cases of syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea in the county during 2017 ...

A key federal health official’s CNN commentary claims such diseases are ‘totally preventable,’ but omits any mention of chaste behavior as a solution. ATLANTA — Sexually transmitted disease is rampant ...