Telehealth platform Doxy.me said it is resolving an issue that gave three third-party companies access to the names of patients’ providers, CyberScoop reported Dec. 10. CyberScoop found that Doxy.me, ...

A sexual health strategy called doxy-PEP, in which people who have a history of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) take doxycycline after condomless sex, is highly effective. But it is still ...

The CDC finalized new guidelines that recommend doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxy PEP) for at-risk gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TGW) to ...

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- There is medication you can take that can prevent certain sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Its name is doxycycline, and Doxy PEP refers to taking the antibiotic ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now recommending some people use of a common antibiotic as a "morning-after" pill to help prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases – a ...

Doctors should weigh prescribing some of their patients a pill of a powerful antibiotic, doxycycline, to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted infections, according to new draft recommendations ...

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 ...

The global rise in bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) poses a significant public health issue. A Spanish study has examined the doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis (Doxy-PEP) method as ...

We conducted an open-label, randomized study involving MSM and transgender women who were taking preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection (PrEP cohort) or ...

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The CDC issued a draft of its guidance for how and when the antibiotic doxycycline should be used as a preventive treatment for STIs, a regimen known as doxy-PEP. When you purchase through links on ...