Medicare Part B covers annual STD/STI testing if you are at an increased risk, and it covers HIV testing once a year for those ages 15 to 65, or more frequently if at higher risk or pregnant. You are ...

A Xavier student University student won the Big East Start Up Challenge for his idea for innovative STD testing.His idea to transform the testing process for college students has already gotten the ...

"I hope people can learn from my mistakes because I've made tons of mistakes," Briana DeJesus told PEOPLE Writer-Reporter, PEOPLE Briana DeJesus is staying on top of her sexual health. In an exclusive ...

Three North Carolina metro areas landed in the top 100 cities in the U.S. with the highest STD infection rates, according to a recent study. Innerbody, a healthcare research group, used data from the ...

Herpes affects billions of people around the world. In fact, the World Health Organization reports that 3.8 billion people under the age of 50 have herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), the main cause ...

Testing at home for gonorrhea is private, easy, and accurate. It can be a smart first step toward protecting yourself and others. Even when gonorrhea is asymptomatic, it can be transmitted to another ...

A U.S. appeals court panel let the Trump administration block Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood while legal challenges ...

After a request last week from Judge William M. Ray II to share her STD test results in the defamation case against vlogger Latasha “Tasha K” Kebe, famed rapper/reality star Cardi B contends that ...

A Texas man has allegedly admitted to raping a 3-year-old relative and giving her STDs, authorities said. Drevon Alexander Perkins, 26, was arrested and charged with super aggravated sexual assault of ...

On Tuesday, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that nearly 2.3 million cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia were diagnosed in 2017—the highest number ...

Patients had better linkage to care for HIV and HIV was more frequently diagnosed when it was tested alongside other sexually ...

HOUSTON — There's a syphilis outbreak in Houston that has the city increasing its efforts to reduce the number of cases being reported. The Houston Health Department said this syphilis outbreak is ...