The spread of drug-resistant gonorrhea has led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to change its guidelines for treating that infection in gay men, but not in heterosexuals. The ...

UPDATE 3/13/2014 5:45 PM ET: The CDC has reached out to clarify that ceftriaxone, a type of the antibiotic cephalosporin, is currently the only recommended treatment for gonorrhea, and that resistance ...

The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is becoming increasingly resistant to yet another drug, which now leaves just one medication that can be used as a first-line treatment for the disease, ...

Gonorrhea is on the rise in the U.S. (Photo: Getty Images) Cases of gonorrhea are skyrocketing in the U.S. after hitting a historic low in 2009. In 2020 (the most recent year data is available), more ...

treating gonorrhea with fluoroquinolone antibiotics such as Cipro, Floxin, and Levaquin. Instead, the CDC recommends only one class of drugs -- the cephalosporins, which are antibiotics such as ...

ATLANTA - The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is now among the "superbugs" resistant to common antibiotics, leading U.S. health officials to recommend wider use of a different class of drugs to ...

ATLANTA – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) no longer recommends antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones (ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin and levofloxacin) as a treatment for gonorrhea in ...

Gonorrhea, one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the US, infects more than 700,000 Americans each year. Most do not have symptoms. Left untreated, it can increase the risk for HIV ...

New guidance from the CDC suggests the number of treatment-resistant infections to the once curable disease are on the rise, according to research published Feb. 14 in the agency's journal, Morbidity ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) no longer recommends antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones (ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, and levofloxacin) as a treatment for gonorrhea in the United ...

August 10, 2012 — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) no longer recommends oral cephalosporin treatment for gonococcal infections, according to their updated guidelines, reported ...

New cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis spiked nearly 10 percent in 2017, continuing a four-year trend of rising sexually transmitted diseases fueled by a lack of awareness and changing sexual ...