As rates of sexually transmitted infections continue to skyrocket across the United States, a growing number of physicians are prescribing a commonly used antibiotic as a way to prevent chlamydia, ...

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 ...

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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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As STI rates reach record highs, the CDC is drafting recommendations for some people to take a "morning after" pill to prevent the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What it's like when your teen gets a sexually transmitted infection. (Photo illustration: Victoria Ellis for Yahoo News; images: ...

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 ...

A morning-after pill treatment for sexually transmitted infections may not be effective at preventing disease in biological women, according to a new publication from the National Institute of Allergy ...

Pivotal studies of some biomedical HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention interventions have excluded cisgender women or demonstrated low efficacy among them, limiting their ...

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 ...