The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finalized its guidelines for post-exposure prophylaxis against bacterial sexually transmitted infections on Tuesday. For groups at higher risk of ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is proposing a new policy aimed at dramatically reducing sexually transmitted infections in the United States. In a guidance document published Monday in ...

NEW YORK — Some people should consider taking an antibiotic as a morning-after pill to try to prevent certain sexually transmitted diseases, U.S. health officials recommended Tuesday. The Centers for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Doctors should weigh prescribing some of their patients a pill of a powerful antibiotic, doxycycline, to prevent the spread of ...

Share on Pinterest The CDC issued a warning over a multi-drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” that’s been surging in the United States. Getty Images A new CDC report found a sharp increase in ...

FILE - A pharmacist holds a bottle of the antibiotic doxycycline hyclate in Sacramento, Calif., July 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) The CDC on Monday published a notice for comment from ...

Infections from dangerous bacteria that are resistant to “some of the strongest antibiotics available” have surged in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.

A new CDC report found a sharp increase in infections caused by a dangerous "nightmare bacteria." Carbapenemase-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CP-CRE) are bacteria capable of ...

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 ...