Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the microbe responsible for gonorrhoea, is developing resistance to most antibiotics, which means we need new drugs to treat the condition. An antibiotic called zoliflodacin mig ...

Gonorrhoea is becoming as incurable as it was in the 1920s, before the first drugs to treat it were discovered. More than 60% of countries surveyed around the world have reported cases that resist ...

Bladder cancer is the fourth most common cancer in men, and the sixth most commonly diagnosed cancer in the US (Ries et al, 2006). Schistosomiasis is a well-established risk factor for bladder cancer ...

A novel oral antibiotic zoliflodacin is as effective as ceftriaxone plus azithromycin in treating uncomplicated urogenital ...

Gonorrhoea could become an untreatable disease, England's chief medical officer has warned. Dame Sally Davies has written to all GPs and pharmacies to ensure they are prescribing the correct drugs ...

Having a sexually transmitted infection is a bad enough experience on its own. Usually though, it is nothing that a treatment course from your doctor won’t help clear off. And then you promise ...

Dubbed a “super-superbug” because of its resistance, cases involving this nasty strain of the sexually transmitted infection have almost tripled in six months. The shocking figures are part of a new ...

Susan Walker has previously received funding from Bayer PLC, and has been a consultant to NaturalCycles. The latest data from the UK Health Security Agency shows that diagnoses of gonorrhoea and ...

Gonorrhoea can be spread through kissing, a leading expert has claimed, amid calls for guidelines over sexually transmitted infections to be updated to reflect the latest research. For decades, ...

At Kingston University in south-west London, a researcher in a white lab coat and safety goggles struggles to unscrew a large plastic jar full of cow eyes, fresh from the local slaughterhouse.

A vaccine targeting gonorrhoea will soon be rolled out on the NHS. This will make England and Wales the first two countries in the world to offer such a programme. Around 10% of men and nearly half of ...

A new strain of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhoea has become resistant to antibiotics, international research shows. Analysis of the bacterium that causes gonorrhoea found a new variant ...