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Editor's Choice Main Category: Sexual Health / STDs Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Article Date: 29 Jun 2009 - 0:00 PDT Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted bacterial infection that tends to attack the mucous membranes of the body.

Not a week goes by that Dr. Matthew Johnson doesn't treat a patient in his Park Forest office for a reinfected sexually transmitted disease.

For people struggling to find adequate health care and those struggling to provide care, state budget cuts make both propositions more difficult, local officials say.

Sex education for teens via text messages? Yes, it is a reality, and the brainchild of the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina .

Antibiotic treatment for gonorrhea or Chlamydia would become more readily available in Oregon if a bill passed by the House Monday becomes law.

According to the book, Medicinal Plants in the South Pacific by the World Health Organization, a special small tree found in the South Pacific known as the Thespesia although it is known by other names in the ...

Gonorrhea superbugs are swiftly emerging in Canada, and men, as well as patients over 30 are at the greatest risk, new research shows.

PATANCHERU, India - When researchers analyzed vials of treated wastewater taken from a plant where about 90 Indian drug factories dump their residues, they were shocked.

There has been a sharp increase in the percentage of gonorrhea cases in Ontario that are resistant to antibiotics that until recently were potent and simple-to-use weapons against the sexually transmitted ...

Gonorrhea superbugs are swiftly emerging in Canada, and men, as well as patients over 30 are at the greatest risk, new research shows.

Conventional testing for bacteria takes three to four days. The percentage of gonorrhea cases in Ontario resistant to a common class of antibiotics has soared, and researchers say that finding reinforces ...

Medical researchers have found that some of the streams, rivers, and groundwater in Patancheru, India, are really "a soup of 21 different active pharmaceutical ingredients, used in generics for treatment of ...

When researchers analyzed vials of treated wastewater taken from a plant where about 90 Indian drug factories dump their residues, they were shocked. Enough of a single, powerful antibiotic was being spewed into one stream each day to treat every person in a city of 90,000.

And it wasn't just ciprofloxacin being detected. The supposedly cleaned water was a floating medicine cabinet _ a soup of 21 different active pharmaceutical ingredients, used in generics for treatment of hypertension, heart disease, chronic liver ailments, depression, gonorrhea, ulcers and other ailments. Half of the drugs measured at the highest levels of pharmaceuticals ever detected in the environment, researchers say.

Pennsylvania saw an increase in the number of reported cases of gonorrhea and chlamydia in 2007, highlighting the need for more regular testing by men and women, according to the Department of Health.

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The Nurse Practitioner: The American Journal of Primary Health Care December 2006 Volume 31 Number 12 Pages 12 - 21 Abstract To assist clinicians in preventing and treating STDs, the CDC recently published new ...