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 (doxyPEP) 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 ...

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 ...

Two new studies suggest that a dose of doxycycline taken within 3 days of unprotected sex is associated with significant ...