While the use of PrEP has helped drop the rates of HIV infections, instances of syphilis and chlamydia among queer men have ...

Using a common antibiotic following sex can dramatically reduce a person's risk of some sexually transmitted infections, a ...

A decrease in California's sexually transmitted infections (STIs) followed early real-world adoption of doxycycline ...

Quarterly syphilis rates decreased from 1.7% prior to doxyPEP availability to 0.3% afterward, while quarterly chlamydia rates ...

Doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis initiation is associated with decreases in sexually transmitted infections.

A new study has found that rates of chlamydia and syphilis plummet among people prescribed doxycycline for sexually ...

The rates of chlamydia and syphilis declined dramatically among individuals living with HIV who were prescribed doxycycline ...

This is one of the first real-world studies to show the effectiveness of the tactic called doxyPEP, for doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis, researchers said. "Interventions that are effective ...

Opens in a new tab or window A decrease in California's sexually transmitted infections (STIs) followed early real-world adoption of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxyPEP), suggesting ...

It was published on Jan. 6 in JAMA Internal Medicine. DoxyPEP is a new strategy for preventing STIs that involves taking a dose of doxycycline, a common and well-tolerated antibiotic medication ...

A new study in JAMA Internal Medicine led by the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute examined whether doxycycline post-exposure ...