insert_link Health & Wellness STIs are on the rise for People over 55: “Age is Not a Condom” There’s no such thing as being too old to get a sexually transmitted infection (STI). As reported by Yahoo Life, there’s “a misconception” that older adults are “immune to STIs simply because they're over the age of 55 and that's not going to happen to them anymore,” Dr. Ina Park, associate professor of family community medicine at the University of California San Francisco, and author of Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and […] todayMarch 2, 2022
insert_link Health & Wellness STD Cases Hit Record High for Fifth Straight Year Sexually transmitted infections hit a record high 2.4 million cases in 2018, making it the fifth year in a row that cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis have spiked, according to new numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency pointed to the budget cuts that have hit sexually transmitted disease programs in recent years as a driving factor behind the disease spike. Cuts to state and […] todayOctober 16, 2019