sexually transmitted diseases

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have discovered that a bacterial protein interferes with an infected cell's ability to respond to and repair DNA, a problem that can cause cancer.

By Sarah Meehan

Dec 5, 2018

Increased frequency of sexually transmitted diseases needs to be addressed.

Doctors and public officials in Maryland are dealing with increasing STD rates.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Sep 18, 2018

The Trump's administration's reproductive health plan would only treat patients who have health insurance from their employers or are wealthy enough to pay out-of-pocket. And it would require clinicians to knowingly withhold evidence-based treatment.

If people can't afford contraceptives on their own, let them abstain from sexual contact.

Allowing pharmacists to dispense birth control pills is problematic

As Congress and the Trump administration move toward a possible cutoff of federal money for Planned Parenthood, Democratic leaders in the General Assembly are rallying around a planto have the state fill the funding gap.

By Michael Dresser

Mar 8, 2017

Many of the people most at risk for contracting HIV in Baltimore know nothing about a drug that is 92 percent effective in preventing the virus, research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has found.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Oct 21, 2016

Health of African Americans in Baltimore is bad by many measures, but conditions are the same in other urban areas

By Meredith Cohn

Sep 3, 2016

The sexually transmitted disease syphilis can be cured with a shot of penicillin if it's found early, but a national shortage is threatening to put this simple treatment out of reach in places like Baltimore where the infection rate far exceeds that of the nation.

By Meredith Cohn

May 26, 2016

There may never be a perfect time to talk about sexually transmitted diseases, but April, being Sexually Transmitted Disease Awareness Month, is at least the next best thing to perfect: State health officials are encouraging people to talk about risks, get tested and to get treated.

Researchers across the country, including at the University and Maryland, Baltimore County and John Hopkins University, hope to slow the rise of STDs by developing faster tests that allow patients to get results in mere minutes rather than days.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Jan 29, 2016

Research published Wednesday suggested a surprising consequence to an increase in Maryland's alcohol tax: Thousands of fewer cases of gonorrhea.

By Scott Dance

Dec 9, 2015

I'm a straight female in my mid 20s. I've been dating a wonderful guy for two years—but I recently found something that has put me on edge. Before we met, he was in a relationship with a terrible, alcoholic, and mentally unstable woman. They got pregnant early in the relationship and stayed together for about five years. We met a year after they broke up. I felt like I'd come to terms with the ugliness of his past, with his trying to stay in a bad relationship for the sake of his child and

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a low-cost diagnostic tool, slightly larger than a coffee mug, that detects chlamydia within 30 minutes.

Schools are making contraceptives available, but if parents want to know if their kids are having sex they should just ask them

Better to advocate for condoms that prevent sexually transmitted diseases than to push birth control pills on women

Nearly 800 former research subjects and their families filed a billion-dollar lawsuit Wednesday against the Johns Hopkins University, blaming the institution for its role in 1940s and 1950s experiments in Guatemala that infected hundreds with syphilis, gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases.

By Scott Dance

Apr 1, 2015

January is Cervical Health Awareness Month

Dr. Peter Beilenson thought fighting the intractable rates of drug use and sexually transmitted diseases in Baltimore was tough. Then the former city health commissioner took on health insurance.

By Meredith Cohn

Jan 17, 2015

The HPV vaccine could save thousands of lives each year. So why aren't parents vaccinating their children?

Baltimore students created a graphic novel about sexual health at a six-week program at the Baltimore Health Department this summer.

Researchers to use funds to find better treatment, prevention for gonorrhea, chlamydia