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Can Cranberry Juice Cure Urinary Tract Infections?
Cranberry products have a reputation for fighting urinary tract infections. But is this reputation deserved? Image: FreeDigitalPhotos An increased urge to urinate. A burning sensation when you do....
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Over 90 Percent of What Planned Parenthood Does, Part 9: Treating Urinary...
Urinary tract infections occur when certain bacteria invade the urethra. Welcome to the latest installment of “Over 90 Percent of What Planned Parenthood Does,” a series on Planned Parenthood Advocates...
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Get Smart About Antibiotics!
This week we celebrate Get Smart About Antibiotics Week. Antibiotics, or antimicrobials as they are also called, cure bacterial infections by killing bacteria or reducing their ability to reproduce so...
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STD Awareness: Antibiotic-Resistant Syphilis
Treponema pallidum under a microscope. Image: Dr. Edwin P. Ewing, Jr., CDC The image to your right, with lively yellow splotches against a pale green background, is not a long-lost Jackson Pollack...
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STD Awareness: An Update on Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea
Last year, we shared the fascinating and frightening story of the emergence of increasingly antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea, an STD caused by the gonococci bacteria. The sexually transmitted scourge,...
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STD Awareness: Will Gonorrhea Be Worse Than AIDS?
A scanning electron micrograph of a colony of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacteria that cause gonorrhea. Image: Portland State University If you’ve been reading the news lately, you might have noticed...
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STD Awareness: Drug-Resistant Trichomoniasis
Trichomonas vaginalis organisms, which cause trichomoniasis. Image: Parasite Image Library, CDC You’ve probably heard of MRSA, which is a strain of Staphylococcus aureus that evolved resistance to all...
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STD Awareness: Genetics and the Gonococcus
Illustration: CDC Ever since the discovery of effective antibacterial therapies less than a century ago, humans have been able to easily cure gonorrhea, the sexually transmitted scourge that laid waste...
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STD Awareness: Ceftriaxone-Resistant Gonorrhea
Nestled in the throat of a Japanese woman was a collection of clones that scientists abducted from their temporary habitat and christened H041 — a humdrum moniker for a strain of bacteria that would...
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STD Awareness: Mycoplasma genitalium
“I’m not small, I’m just streamlined!” Image of Mycoplasma genitalium adapted from American Society for Microbiology. In November and December of last year, headlines touting a “new” STD made an...
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STD Awareness: Which STDs Are Resistant to Antibiotics?
You’ve probably heard of MRSA, which is pronounced “mersa” and stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus — a strain of bacteria that is resistant to methicillin, as well as pretty much...
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STD Awareness: Gonorrhea’s Ever-Growing Resistance to Antibiotics
Gonococci, the bacteria that cause gonorrhea. Ever since the advent of effective antibacterial therapies less than a century ago, humans with access to these drugs can easily cure gonorrhea. Most of us...
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STD Awareness: Fully Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea Is on the Horizon
We’ve been anticipating its arrival for years now, but earlier this fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finally made an announcement: Cases of gonorrhea resistant to the last...
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STD Awareness: The Surprising Sexual Transmission of Non-STDs
What is a sexually transmitted disease, or STD? If someone catches their partner’s cold during sex, is that cold an STD? According to the Office on Women’s Health, an STD is “an infection passed from...
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STD Awareness: Is Gonorrhea Becoming “Impossible” to Treat?
Image: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Health authorities have been worried about it for a long time now, and we’ve been following it on our blog since 2012. The boogeyman?...
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STD Awareness: “Sounding the Alarm” Over Another Antibiotic-Resistant STD
In 2012, the New England Journal of Medicine ominously stated, “It’s time to sound the alarm.” What followed was a description of the evolution of gonorrhea to all antibiotics we have used to treat it,...
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STD Awareness: UK Announces “Worst-Ever” Case of Gonorrhea
In late March, the BBC reported a story that was widely repeated in headlines across the world: “Man has ‘world’s worst’ super-gonorrhoea.” The article told the story of a British man whose symptoms...
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STD Awareness: Is Mouthwash a Match for Gonorrhea’s Superpowers?
Since the 1930s, we’ve enjoyed around eight decades of easily cured gonorrhea — at least in places with easy access to antibiotics — but experts fear those days are numbered. In the past year or so,...
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