Last month, an article in Nature about a novel oral treatment for gonorrhea brought good news for anyone who might one day contract the sexually transmitted infection (STI), which was recently ...
Over the weekend, a particularly awful pair of words started trending on social media: super gonorrhea. That’s because the World Health Organization recently warned that the pandemic is helping fuel ...
Gonorrhea is preventable and—since the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s—curable. But the “curable” part could be about to change: As The Guardian’s Ben Quinn reports, antibiotic resistance in ...
To an unfamiliar eye, the press release from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health two weeks ago looked pretty routine. Its language was a little unnerving, maybe, but phrased carefully: ...
The front page picture of The Star newspaper released into the market on Thursday, January 12, 2023 featured significantly on Kenyans' WhatsApp and social media statuses. The newspaper's lead story ...
For the first time in decades, the US Food and Drug Administration has signed off on new antibiotics to fight gonorrhea. The approvals come at a critical moment: The sexually transmitted infection is ...
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An Austrian man caught a new strain of gonorrhea that is resistant to common treatments. He had unprotected sex with a sex worker in Cambodia, scientists said. If such strains keeping spreading, many ...