“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...

Casey Means thinks improving health is a spiritual project.

This investigation explores rumors and firsthand accounts of swinging culture spreading across Utah. Interviews at gyms, neighborhoods, and remote locations reveal secret signals, social networks, and ...

Lymphedema after head and neck cancer is considerably more common than previously assumed and can persist long after cancer treatment has finished. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have ...

The sexually transmitted disease has become increasingly resistant to existing antibiotics. By Andrew Jacobs The Food and Drug Administration has approved two new antibiotics for the treatment of ...

You can't go anywhere on the island without hearing about "el virus," including during Sunday Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Cueto, eastern Cuba. Women rubbed their wrists and massaged their ...

Bacterial infections can spread quickly, especially in hospital settings or crowded communities, where vulnerable people are treated in close proximity and bacteria move between them.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When we think about the “Columbian exchange,” much ...

Hundreds of infectious disease specialists have been let go by the Trump administration. Here are four who focused on keeping pandemics at bay. Dr. Stéphie-Anne Dulièpre lost her job at U.S.A.I.D. in ...

Brochures available on Oct. 17, 2023, at the Youth and Elders Conference in Anchorage give information on safer sex and avoidance of sexually transmitted infections. Alaska has long had among the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sexually transmitted disease rates for U.S. adults fell last year, but syphilis in newborns continued to rise, according to new government data posted last week. The Centers for ...