A CyberScoop report published on Friday found that the telehealth provider Doxy.me had allowed third parties to access data about providers via its virtual waiting room. According to reporter Tonya ...

More than 60 years since the "morning after" pill to prevent unwanted pregnancies became available in Australia, there's a new kind of "morning after" pill on the scene — and for a very different ...

Prince Edward Island has updated its guidelines to include the recommendation of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis — ...

If taken within 72 hours of condomless sex, the common antibiotic doxycycline drastically reduces the risk of gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia among transwomen and gay, bisexual and other men who ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. The CDC could soon make it easier for a common antibiotic to be used as a morning-after pill to ...

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A promising line of attack against sexually transmitted infections puts a cheap and widely available medication to a new use. The treatment – a form of post-exposure prophylaxis, or PEP – is a dose of ...

New York-based telehealth company doxy.me has recently automated its localisation efforts to further make its platform accessible to more patients and providers in Asia-Pacific and beyond. Since the ...

The benefits of doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis (Doxy PEP) in preventing the transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in men and transgender women do not appear to extend to ...

There's a treatment that works like a morning-after pill for sexually transmitted infections – an antibiotic taken in the hours after unprotected sex. And it can significantly lower the chance of ...