Dr. Edward Hook — director of the STD Control Program for the Jefferson County Department of Health — spoke to PEOPLE about the recent uptick in syphilis cases ...

Laboratories are asked to notify the ordering clinician and local STD control program when they identify isolates with elevated cephalosporin minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) (cefixime MIC ...

The SYEP model consisted of STD control program tables set up at a health fair, which was part of an orientation for a summer jobs program held June 16 to 21, 2008, at the Washington, DC ...

But it didn’t keep tabs on genital herpes or human papillomavirus, which constitute many of the estimated 19 million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases that occur each year. Why don’t ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to announce Thursday new recommendations for treatment of gonorrhea, said spokeswoman Jessica Frickey, but she declined to give details.

According to Dr. Edward Hook, director of the STD Control Program for the Jefferson County, Alabama Department of Health, gonorrhea has been gradually building resistance to the antibiotics used ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1.1 million people in the United States are living with HIV, and nearly one in six are not aware they are infected.