A CyberScoop report published on Friday found that the telehealth provider Doxy.me had allowed third parties to access data about providers via its virtual waiting room. According to reporter Tonya ...

More than 60 years since the "morning after" pill to prevent unwanted pregnancies became available in Australia, there's a new kind of "morning after" pill on the scene — and for a very different ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STIs are on the rise, but there's a morning-after pill called doxy-PEP that may help. CDC recommendations for doxy-PEP are under ...

If taken within 72 hours of condomless sex, the common antibiotic doxycycline drastically reduces the risk of gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia among transwomen and gay, bisexual and other men who ...

The benefits of doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis (Doxy PEP) in preventing the transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in men and transgender women do not appear to extend to ...

Rates of chlamydia and syphilis — two of the most common sexually transmitted infections in the United States — plummeted in one key demographic after patients were offered a widely prescribed ...

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A promising line of attack against sexually transmitted infections puts a cheap and widely available medication to a new use. The treatment – a form of post-exposure prophylaxis, or PEP – is a dose of ...

There's a treatment that works like a morning-after pill for sexually transmitted infections – an antibiotic taken in the hours after unprotected sex. And it can significantly lower the chance of ...

The founders of telemedicine startup Doxy.me knew they had a problem by the first week of March. About 100 doctors signed up for accounts on a Sunday. "We thought, maybe there's a conference or ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. The CDC could soon make it easier for a common antibiotic to be used as a morning-after pill to ...