An STD is an infection that you get from someone else by having sex. You can get an STD by having vaginal sex (penis in the vagina), anal sex (penis in the rectum), or oral sex (penis in the mouth ...

a fading fear of contracting HIV and widely varying degrees of sex education in high schools all contribute to the trend The Latest Condom use is down among sexually active teens and young adults ...

The purpose of vaccinating children was originally to stop dangerous diseases that spread easily and quickly in a school room ...

A health chief has desperately urged university students to use condoms when having sex to bring down soaring rates of gonorrhoea and syphilis among young people. Last year there were 1,040 new ...

The risk of unprotected sex carries the chance of catching a sexually transmitted infection ... A syphilis test is required to diagnose the disease and a doctor or nurse will check your penis ...

A GROUNDBREAKING large-scale study, presented today at the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) Congress 2024, has provided an unprecedented global overview of sexually transmitted ...

With over 40% of all medicines in the pipeline aimed at rare diseases, the future looks positive for increasing the number of treatments available. However, as Ben Hargreaves discovers ...

Rare diseases aren’t as rare as the appellation suggests. For instance, according to the US Government Accountability Office, 30 million Americans have a rare disease, a little less than 10% of ...

Rare diseases affect less than 5 people out of 10,000. However, this still amounts to about 7% of the world’s population, with over 10,000 such conditions. Almost all are genetic in origin ...