It’s almost Valentine’s Day, and nothing says romance like a column about a sexually transmitted infection! The next time you take your adolescent in for a checkup, you may find that your health care ...
Sexually transmitted infections, or STIs, include both sexually transmitted diseases, known as STDs, and the many infections that don’t progress to disease. STIs are caused by more than 30 different ...
Sexually transmitted infections have been around for thousands of years – the National Institutes of Health notes that there is evidence of gonorrhea from 3,500 years ago – and can cause ...