A new type of antibiotic for treatment of urinary tract infections in women could also work against gonorrhea infections, a new study finds. This could put the medication, called gepotidacin, on track ...

After a three-decade drought of new antibiotics to treat gonorrhea, the FDA has signed off on two first-in-class oral treatments for the sexually transmitted infection (STI), which affects more than ...

The FDA just approved two oral antibiotics to treat gonorrhea. One, zoliflodacin, is a first-in-class antibiotic and the ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Gonorrhea has become increasingly resistant to existing antibiotics. Two newly approved drugs, gepotidacin and ...

A single-dose oral medication called zoliflodacin shows promise as a new treatment for antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea, according to a Phase III trial published in The Lancet. The study found that one ...

The pathogen that causes the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is notorious for its ability to develop drug resistance. But now there are two more treatment options. In December, the U.S. Food ...

Chlamydia and gonorrhea are the two most common sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States, impacting 2.4 million in 2021, and the number is rising. A recent study of individuals ages ...