Asking people not to kiss your baby is definitely a new precaution, so I understand the confusion. It’s more common among parents my age,” Devon Stephen says ...

A young woman has gone viral with a cautionary tale about the spread of cold sores, sharing her painful experience with a virus that spread to her eyes. Amelia (@amelia.kate02), a 19-year-old student ...

How will you know if you have genital herpes? Can you get herpes from someone who doesn’t show signs of the disease? How might herpes effect your body? Find answers here.

In a study, "The Evolutionary Origin of Human Kissing," published in Evolutionary Anthropology, the researchers introduce the "groomer's final kiss hypothesis." ...

If you’re reading this, you’re probably a human, which means you probably don’t do this but rather share your affection by way of a kiss. But as this example shows, kissing is not something ...

Kissing is one of the few natural human gestures that carries significant symbolism and social expectations. For over 4,500 years, cultural norms across civilizations have shaped how affection can ...

Therefore, parents, siblings, and friends should avoid kissing infants when active HSV-1 lesions are present (Kimberlin, 2005). Frequent and thorough hand washing should occur before any contact ...

For more information on injection site reactions, upper respiratory infection, stomach flu, and herpes, see the “Side effects explained” section. In most cases, these side effects should be ...

A kiss has been a signal of special affection across continents and cultures for millennia. But there’s long been debate over how the practice started. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with professor ...