gonorrhea
Encouraging Young People to Test Their Own Genitals Might Not Be a Great Idea
Confidante is a (kind of) funny new campaign for at-home STI testing. But shouldn't we be helping to remove the shame young people feel about going to sexual health clinics?
Old People Keep Screwing on Cruises and It’s Causing STD Outbreaks
Old people are getting it on more than ever before, which means they're getting more diseases than ever before. Do our grandparents need sex ed?
Your Gonorrhea Is Getting Harder to Fight
Gonorrhoea has already become resistant to most of the antibiotics that have been used to treat it over the past 30 years. Now the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has named it an "urgent public health threat."
The US and the UK Have Largely Ignored Antibiotic Resistance
A UK study examining the funding for antibiotic resistance research finds there's little coming down the antibiotic pipeline there, either.
The Coronavirus Could Be the 'Next Big One'
The deadly coronavirus was first discovered last September, when a Qatari man traveled to London to receive medical attention for a mysterious illness. It raised a red flag among experts from the outset. “There are certain families of viruses and...
Sue Johanson
Sue Johanson from 'Sunday Night Sex Show' is the godmother of sexual education. In part two of our interview with her, Kara Crabb reads some of her favorite quotes from Sue's books and the ladies chat about menopause, gonorrhea, and diaphragms.
Future Sex: The Rise of Drug Resistant Gonorrhea
This week the _New Yorker_ has published an "in-depth account of the rise of an antibiotic resistant strain on gonorrhea":http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/01/121001fa_fact_groopman. How terrified should we be?
We're Screwed: Some Strains of Gonorrhea are Now Totally Drug Resistant
If you're one of the 700,000 estimated who will catch the "'clap'":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonorrhea this year, your life just got even _more_ shitty. According to new research, a new superstrain of gonorrhea may be resistant to all drug...