The CDC is drafting recommendations to use doxycycline -- used to treat bacterial infections and prevent malaria -- to stave off STDs. AP A cheap antibiotic could help slow the growing US epidemic ...

Unlike rapid antigen tests for COVID, the home STD kits on the market require patients to collect their own samples, and then mail them to a lab for analysis.

Experts believe STDs have been rising because of declining condom use, inadequate sex education and reduced testing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Millions of Americans are infected each year.

U.S. health officials released data Tuesday showing how chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis cases have been accelerating, but doctors are hoping an old drug will help fight the sexually transmitted i… ...