Blue waffle disease is not a real sexually transmitted infection (STI). It's an old internet hoax that was concocted by pranksters who claimed that the vagina and labia (vaginal lips) could turn blue, ...

As funding for state and local health services fall, STDs continue to rise. Sexually transmitted infections hit a record high 2.4 million cases in 2018, making it the fifth year in a row that cases of ...

Watching a performance of Henrik Ibsen’s play Ghosts as an undergraduate, I was appalled by the dawning realization that young Oswald had congenital syphilis as collateral damage from his father’s ...

MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) - Rates of babies born with congenital syphilis are increasing in Wisconsin. State health officials want to spread awareness about this preventable, sexually transmitted infection ...

In the past decade or so, sex educators have sought to shift the way people think about sexually transmitted diseases. For starters, we don’t call them STDs anymore, we call them STIs, or, sexually ...