According to the arrest warrant, patrol officer Pierce Cotton met a woman in July 2025, and a relationship developed between them. The woman told officers that the relationship turned sexual on Oct.

For the first time in decades, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has signed off on new antibiotics to fight gonorrhea. The approvals come at a critical moment: The sexually transmitted infection ...

Sexually transmitted diseases or STDs (formerly called venereal diseases) are among the world's most common infectious diseases. These bacterial or viral diseases are spread through sexual contact.

However, a new Johns Hopkins Medicine study that looked at over 10,000 people who attended an STI clinic in Baltimore has found that the occurrence of gonorrhea or chlamydia in extragenital areas like ...

Gonococcal conjunctivitis (GC) is an eye infection caused by the bacterium responsible for gonorrhea. It can be transmitted from the person giving birth to the newborn during vaginal delivery or ...

Among women, untreated gonorrhea can cause an infection of the reproductive organs called pelvic inflammatory disease, raising the risk of pregnancy complications and infertility. In rare cases among ...