As STI rates reach record highs, the CDC is drafting recommendations for some people to take a "morning after" pill to prevent the transmission of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis infections Duncan ...

Guidelines for using an antibiotic morning-after pill to curb sexually transmitted infections are on the horizon, as US health officials plan to endorse the proposed regulations. On Monday, the ...

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released guidelines for using the antibiotic doxycycline as post-exposure prophylaxis to prevent sexually transmitted infections – an ...

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“To effectively curb these epidemics, countries are encouraged to update their national strategies, remove barriers to ...

San Francisco is the first city to issue guidelines on the use of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis, or doxy-PEP, to prevent sexually transmitted infections, the Department of Public Health ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Doxy-PEP is recommended for some patients to prevent STIs after having unprotected sex. Evidence shows it may be ...

Doctors should weigh prescribing some of their patients a pill of a powerful antibiotic, doxycycline, to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted infections, according to new draft recommendations ...

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Since 2003, the number of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the U.S. rose a staggering 90% in what has been called an out-of-control epidemic. However, the most recent national data from 2023 ...

It’s no secret that the Covid-19 pandemic affected care for millions of Americans. Research shows that 41% of patients went without seeking medical care from March through mid-July 2020. One area that ...