Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A scoring system can help determine whether a patient with a sore throat is likely to have GAS. The goal of the ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for two new oral medicines to treat gonorrhoea, a common sexually transmitted infection, prone to resistance against drugs. Indian ...

Rising antimicrobial resistance and administration challenges for standard therapy make new treatment options for gonorrhea a public health priority. In a randomized trial, investigational oral ...

A single-dose oral medication called zoliflodacin shows promise as a new treatment for antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea, according to a Phase III trial published in The Lancet. The study found that one ...

Phase 3 findings show oral zoliflodacin to be non-inferior to the combination of ceftriaxone and azithromycin for the treatment of uncomplicated urogenital gonorrhea. Positive study results are a ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted infection, is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, according to new data from its Enhanced Gonococcal ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted infection, is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, according to new data from its Enhanced Gonococcal ...

TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech ...

Credit: Getty Images Up to 6% of pediatric visits are due to complaints of sore throat. Group A Streptococcus pharyngitis is most common in children between 5 and 15 years of age, with the highest ...

Point-of-care testing for group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus (Strep A) significantly reduced antibiotic prescriptions in children and adults with signs of pharyngitis, even when used as the sole ...

A woman in her 50s died from a rare complication of the bacterial STI this spring, the latest in a recent spike of similar cases in the state. Reading time 3 minutes A well-known sexually transmitted ...

An Alaska woman has died from a severe complication of gonorrhea that is rare but has increased in frequency in the state, health officials reported. The woman, in her 50s, had disseminated gonococcal ...