FDA Grants Priority Review to Gepotidacin for Gonorrhea Treatment Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli14 Aug 2025 8:00 AM ISTThe FDA has accepted GSK's application for priority review of gepotidacin, a first-in-class antibiotic for uncomplicated gonorrhea. Already approved...
STIs During Pregnancy Linked to Higher Risk of Birth Complications: Study Dr. Shravani Dali28 July 2025 10:30 PM ISTA new study published in The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific has found that sexually transmitted infections (STIs) during pregnancy are...
Gepotidacin could be new treatment option for gonorrhea, suggests Phase 3 trial Jacinthlyn Sylvia21 April 2025 8:30 AM ISTA new study published in the journal of The Lancet showed that, with no new safety issues, gepotidacin showed no inferiority to ceftriaxone with...
FDA Approves First At-Home Test for STIs in Women Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli30 March 2025 8:30 PM ISTThe US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted marketing authorization for the first at-home test to diagnose chlamydia, gonorrhea, and...
Roche receives USFDA clearance with CLIA waiver for cobas liat sexually transmitted infection multiplex assay panels Ruchika Sharma26 Jan 2025 10:30 AM ISTBasel: Roche has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance and Clinical Laboratory Improvement...
Medical Bulletin 10/February/2024 Anshika Mishra10 Feb 2024 3:00 PM ISTHere are the top medical news highlights of the day:Prediction of Psychosis before its onsetAn international consortium, including researchers from...
Sex hormones enhance gonorrhea's defense against antibiotics Anshika Mishra10 Feb 2024 9:15 AM ISTThe standard warning on oral contraceptives about not protecting against STIs takes on new significance with gonorrhea; the bacterium causing this...
First Test for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea with At-home Sample Collection Receives FDA's Marketing Authorization Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli17 Nov 2023 9:45 AM ISTUSA: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted marketing authorization to to the first chlamydia and gonorrhea test that allows for...
Investigational antibiotic zoliflodacin promising treatment of uncomplicated gonorrhea Niveditha Subramani7 Nov 2023 9:00 AM IST Antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a growing global health threat. Approximately 82 million new gonorrhoea infections...
Group B Meningococcal vaccine reduced gonorrhea incidence among university students: JAMA Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli14 Sept 2023 10:00 AM ISTUSA: A meningococcal group B vaccine (MBV) was shown to offer protection against gonorrhoea, new research published in JAMA Network Open has...
Doxycycline After Unprotected Sex Significantly Reduced STIs Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli7 July 2022 8:00 PM ISTA significant proportion of bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs)-gonorrhea, chlamydia, or syphilis-were prevented with a dose of...
Canadian task force lays down recent updates on chlamydia and gonorrhea screening Dr Satabdi Saha26 April 2021 8:00 AM ISTIn a recent development, the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care has laid down latest updates on on screening for chlamydia and...
