Last month, a local health department in Texas received notification that a pregnant woman living in the area had tested positive for syphilis and had fallen behind on her ob/gyn care. It was a troubling situation, one that has become increasingly common as sexually transmitted infection cases surge both locally and nationally.
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For the first time in more than six months, Riverside County reported a new confirmed or probable mpox case in the Coachella Valley Thursday, raising the overall number to 317.
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Nikki Haley, the 2024 Republican presidential contender, linked the presence of transgender girls in sports to suicidal ideation among teenage girls in a CNN town hall Sunday night in Iowa.
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Wastewater testing in Palm Springs shows the presence of mpox for the first time in months though no new cases have been reported, officials said Thursday.
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In January, as a 28th birthday present to herself, Mariah Marsh got herself sterilized.
Five months later, she says she’s very glad she did.
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According to new research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, people hospitalized with COVID-19 this past flu season were more likely to die than people hospitalized with influenza, especially if they were unvaccinated against the coronavirus.
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People who are vaccinated or who take Paxlovid during a Covid-19 infection have a lower risk of developing long Covid, new research shows.
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Clinical cases of Candida auris, an emerging fungus considered an urgent threat, nearly doubled in 2021, according to new data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
