Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gonorrhea is on the rise in the U.S. (Photo: Getty Images) (Getty / Nadeen Nakib for Yahoo Life) Cases of gonorrhea are ...

Sex may be super fun—and, you know, essential to maintaining the human population—but it can also come with some damn uncomfortable consequences...like the more than 20 different types of STIs.

Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae. While the most common symptoms of gonorrhea involve the genital and urinary areas, it's important to ...

"Super" and "gonorrhea"—two words you never, ever want to hear together; and yet, here we are, because three people just got it. A British man and two Australians traveling together in southeast Asia ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experts say that overuse of antibiotics has led to antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea. (Getty Images) That’s concerning given that ...

Many people never develop symptoms, which makes it easy to pass the infection unknowingly. No. Many people never develop symptoms, especially women. Up to 50% of women may not notice signs at all, ...

In the age-old battle of humans versus gonorrhea, we’re losing. Since 2009, rates of gonococcal infection have increased 46.8 percent in the United States. The good thing is that a team at Tufts ...

Public health officials says they have found two cases of gonorrhea that appear to have reduced susceptibility to every kind of antibiotic available to treat them. It's the first time strains of ...

A new treatment for gonorrhea shows promise, which is welcome news with global rates of the sexually transmitted infection on the rise and antibiotic resistance becoming more prevalent. The oral ...