Std Infection

The FDA has granted Visby Medical authorization to market their at-home, over-the-counter diagnostic test that detects chlamydia, gonorrhea and trichomoniasis, according to a press release.

The number of congenital syphilis-related stillbirths increased annually from 2016 to 2022 in the U.S. while the proportion of cases resulting in stillbirth remained stable, researchers reported in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Estimates of lifetime quality-adjusted life-years lost due to gonorrhea, chlamydia and trichomoniasis were substantially higher among women than among men in 2018, researchers found.

Many patients associated with a disseminated gonococcal infections outbreak in California lacked usual symptoms and were not included in the screening groups, according to an outbreak assessment published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

The years-long surge in STDs in the United States continued in 2020 during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and there are indications that cases are still increasing, the CDC warned Tuesday.

Many women skipped important preventive health care appointments in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially if they were from lower-income and minority communities, according to a study published in JAMA Health Forum.