Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is an inflammation of a woman’s upper re­productive tract, including the structures of the uterus, ovaries, and fallopian tubes. Salpingitis, inflammation of the ...

WHILE women are primed from a young age to spot suspicious signs in their breasts, they may be less well equipped when it comes to symptoms of cervical cancer. Signs of the disease – which ...

Women who develop bacterial vaginosis (BV) often later acquire chlamydia, a common and potentially serious sexually ...

Women who develop bacterial vaginosis (BV) often later acquire chlamydia, a common and potentially serious sexually transmitted bacterial infection. Now, researchers at Albert Einstein College of ...

Maintaining feminine hygiene is essential for your health and overall well-being. Check out the things that you should make ...

Probiotics are "good" bacteria, but they may not be the best option to get rid of the bacteria when you have BV. Our experts ...

If there’s one thing you don’t want to endure, it’s the symptoms of norovirus ... like a parasitic or bacterial infection, hemorrhoids, or anal fissures, for example.) ...

Beginning Jan. 2014, Texas state law (SB 62) mandates that all entering students under the age of 22 provide a certificate signed by a health care provider or an official immunization record verifying ...

It may also be easy to mistake STI symptoms for those of another issue. Chlamydia is a bacterial STI that passes from person to person through anal, oral, or vaginal sex without a condom or other ...

As the problem of antibiotic resistance continues to swell, some scientists are hunting for alternative treatments for bacterial infections. One of these treatments, called phage therapy ...