Regular STD testing and treatment decrease your risk of getting or spreading infections. You can use protection like condoms to significantly lower your risk of transmission. Untreated STDs can lead ...

STDs are the poor consequences of bad protection during intercourse. People often avoid or forget about protection because they are under the belief that it is only needed to avoid unwanted ...

Simply put, because "STDs are biologically and psycho-socially sexist at all levels," said Dr. Hunter Handsfield, a professor emeritus of medicine at the University of Washington Center for AIDS and ...

Penile discharge is the abnormal loss of fluid that is not urine, or semen from the urethra (urine tube) at the tip of the penis. It is commonly the sign of a sexually transmitted disease (STD), and ...

Few people enjoy talking about venereal diseases, but just because we don’t overshare about them doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Particularly if you live in, say, Memphis, Tennessee. We looked at four ...

Just three months after having a normal physical examination, a young woman complains of lower-abdominal pain. What did her clinician miss? This is the second of a three-part series on sexually ...

Two lesions on the patient’s labia arouse suspicion of a second problem. An STD expert tracks down a diagnosis other clinicians might miss. This is the third of a three-part series on sexually ...