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, ...

Common infections such as CMV and HSV-2 are linked to domain-specific cognitive decline in community-dwelling older adults.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...