More than one in five people aged between 15 and 49 globally or 846 million people live with a genital herpes infection, according to an estimate by the World Health Organization (WHO). Every second, ...

Alzheimer’s disease is a condition that slowly destroys the brain’s ability to function properly and form memories. However, there might be a hidden culprit that can trigger Alzheimer’s. According to ...

The question: Do condoms, which provide significant protection against HIV, offer similar protection against herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2), which causes genital herpes? This study: It combined data ...

Researchers at the University of Kansas have discovered a human gene, the protein PARP14, plays a role in regulating ...

When we think about sexually transmitted infections (STIs), many of us might picture high-profile diseases like HIV or syphilis. However, lurking in the shadows is genital herpes, a condition that ...

The incidence of neonatal herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections in the UK and Ireland increased dramatically over 15 years, and outcomes remained poor, with mortality and long-term neurologic ...

Genital herpes infections are very common. There are 42 million new infections each year — that averages out to one new person infected each second. While treatments can help with symptoms, there's no ...

Researchers conclude that a South African experiment of an anti-retroviral vaginal gel tenofovir could prevent between 271,000 and more than a half million new HIV infections in 10 years, depending on ...

Researchers from Cleveland Clinic's Genome Center outlined the pathway human herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV1) can use to contribute to Alzheimer's disease in aging brains. In a report published in ...

A common type of human papillomavirus (HPV) could be more dangerous than we thought. The virus, known as beta-HPV, was ...