About 20% of people in the United States have an STI, and almost half of new cases occur in people ages 15 to 24 years. Transmission usually occurs from unprotected vaginal, oral, or anal sex with ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. New research suggests that bacterial vaginosis, a ...

But there are exceptions. Passing an STI via fomite transmission (objects or materials) is theoretically possible. Fomite transmission can occur when body fluids from someone with an STI get on ...

As it turns out, this common condition that affects nearly one in three women may actually be a sexually transmitted infection (STI), according to a new study in The New England Journal of Medicine.

A landmark study reveals that bacterial vaginosis (BV), a condition affecting nearly a third of women worldwide and causing infertility, premature births and newborn deaths, is in fact a sexually ...