Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experts say that overuse of antibiotics has led to antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea. (Getty Images) That’s concerning given that ...

Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria, as seen in this illustration, consist of a pair of cells, called diplococci, and have hair-like pili on their surfaces. They can cause the sexually transmitted ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea risks becoming a drug-resistant "superbug" if doctors do not devise new ways of treating it, a leading sexual health expert said.

In February, public health officials in the UK reported that three people there had recently contracted gonorrhea, the well-known sexually transmitted infection. What made the cases noteworthy is that ...

England will start a vaccination program for gonorrhea, the first such program in the world, starting in August. The focus of the vaccination program will be men who have sex with men (MSM) with a ...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced on Thursday two cases of a novel strain of gonorrhea—one which is resistant to five classes of antibiotic treatment, and which health officials ...

A new treatment for gonorrhea shows promise, which is welcome news with global rates of the sexually transmitted infection on the rise and antibiotic resistance becoming more prevalent. The oral ...

Gonorrhea is a common sexually transmitted disease (STD) that causes infection in more than 1.5 million people every year in the United States. The infection is caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae, a type ...

Some places carry a higher risk of sexually transmitted diseases — where does your home state land? New data from Universal Drugstore revealed the STD hotspots across the country, according to the ...

A widely approved vaccine for meningitis may provide up to 40% protection against gonorrhea in young adults and adolescents, according to new research. This moderate efficacy paired with a targeted ...

A sign for the emergency department at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage. State health officials say a woman who died from an untreated gonorrhea infection showed up at a local emergency ...

It sounds more like a villain straight out of a comic book, but “super-gonorrhea” — better known as antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea — is real. Canada recently reported a rise in the persistent ...