THURSDAY, Feb. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — New research finds the 2022 mpox outbreak among gay and bisexual men began to slow down after just a few months — even though just 8% of high-risk people had received the mpox vaccine. That suggests that it was changes in gay andContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Well-to-do American families are more likely than poorer families to increase their children’s risk of cervical cancer by skipping the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, a new study has found. Nearly two-thirds of well-off parents (65%) do not intend to seek out the HPVContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Women with HIV experience accelerated DNA aging, potentially leading to poorer physical function sooner in life than expected, a new study says. Markers of aging measured in blood revealed that women with HIV age faster than their chronological age, according to results publishedContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Maternal syphilis rates have tripled in recent years, putting thousands of newborns at risk for infection, a new U.S. government report shows. Left untreated, syphilis can damage the heart and brain and cause blindness, deafness and paralysis. When transmitted during pregnancy, it canContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Is ‘practice makes perfect’ true for the male erection, too? That’s the suggestion from a Swedish study involving amorous male mice. It found that getting erections regularly was important to the rodents’ overall erectile function. The key seemed to lie in connective tissueContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 7, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Women are four times more likely to die from heart disease and six times more likely to die from stroke if infected with a high-risk strain of human papillomavirus (HPV), a new study warns. HPV already is known to cause most cervical cancers,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — U.S. cases of syphilis have soared past numbers seen just a decade ago, new government statistics show. The grim numbers are for 2022, the latest year for which an accurate tally is available. More than 202,000 cases were recorded among Americans that yearContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Too many closeted gay and bisexual men didn’t receive treatment for infectious mpox during the recent global outbreak, a new report finds. It wasn’t necessarily because they feared being outed if they sought care, experts said. Instead, these men’s separation from the widerContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Amid an ongoing shortage of the first-line treatment for syphilis in the United States, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will allow the importation of a different syphilis drug from a French drugmaker. In a letter from Laboratoires Delbert, the Paris-based company said it’sContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 21, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Even Valentine’s Day apparently doesn’t trump the start of a brand new year when it comes to getting frisky. Sales of the morning-after pill surged across the U.S. after New Year 2022, new research shows. Nearly 41,000 extra pills were sold in theContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Being in a marriage or long-term relationship typically includes promises of monogamy, but new research shows a surprising number of folks, mostly men, are open to the idea of having another person in the mix. Fully one-third of men in the United KingdomContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Mpox is making headlines again, as an outbreak of severe disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa has infected thousands of people and killed hundreds. Amid this worrying scenario, researchers at New York University (NYU) offer a glimmer of good news:Continue Reading
MONDAY, Dec. 4, 2023 (HealthDay News) — As syphilis cases surge across America, a group representing the nation’s STD specialists says members are reporting shortages of a drug essential to fighting the disease. In a survey from the National Coalition of STD Directors conducted in early November, 46% of sexualContinue Reading
MONDAY, Nov. 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) — In a disease cluster last year, one infected but asymptomatic man spread a rare form of syphilis that affects the eyes to five Michigan women, a new report finds. Since ocular syphilis remains very rare, researchers believe the strain of T. pallidum —Continue Reading