Caitlyn Fitzpatrick

A trip to the beauty salon could result in exposure to dangerous blood-borne viruses.

For two decades, patients with genital herpes have only had so many treatment options. But a new option could be added.

“HIV is a clever virus and has learned to evade even some of the best drugs on the market," said Dmitry Lyumkis, PhD.

Study results on the link between vitamin D and headache have a history of being ambiguous, but new research found more conclusive findings.

The MD Magazine editors rounded up the 10 best stories from December—did you read them all?

Between daily news and conferences around the country, it was a busy year in fibromyalgia research.

Between daily news and conferences around the country, it was a busy year in HIV/AIDS research.

Between daily news and conferences around the United States and Europe, it was a busy year in multiple sclerosis research.

Researchers have been studying the potential multiple sclerosis drug ocrelizumab (Ocrevus/Genentech) for years. Results from those studies have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

Listerine doesn't just help provide fresh breath. A new study shows its fighting properties against gonorrhea.

A JAMA Pediatrics study concluded that there is no need for changes in vaccine practices in pregnant women.

Researchers from MGH, MIT, and Harvard identified five key genes that could be altered to prevent HIV from dodging treatment.

“Assuming causality, this would mean that approximately 16.2% of hearing loss occurring in these women could be due to ibuprofen or acetaminophen use,” said Gary Curhan, MD, SCD.

“Patients cured of hepatitis C through treatment had a higher mortality rate overall than the general population,” Scottish researchers found.

Beginning antiretroviral therapy before conception in HIV-positive women was linked to preterm delivery, but the benefits outweighed the risks.

Increasing the duration of sofosbuvir/ribavirin treatment can cure more patients with hepatitis C genotype 2 with cirrhosis.

Autoimmune disease has been known to increase the risk of epilepsy, but it's new knowledge that a mother's rheumatoid arthritis impacts their offspring's epilepsy risk.

The United Kingdom and Ireland have reached a record low rate of perinatal HIV transmissions.

Many women believe that estrogen in birth control pills is causing them to gain weight, however, studies concluded that this is a temporary side effect more times than not – and the “gain” is water retention, not fat.

Employment status can be very telling for opioid and stimulant misuse odds, said researchers from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

The few hepatitis C rapid tests available now are either too expensive or lack quality – posing problems for extensive distribution.

Researchers have been exploring the “shock and kill” method to get rid of the virus for good, but a new study warns that the strategy could make things even worse.

As December 1 marks World AIDS Day, researchers report on the latest prevention and diagnosis strategies as well as a threat in the quest to eradicate the disease.

The MD Magazine editors rounded up the 10 best stories from November – did you read them all?

Some of the different hepatitis C genotypes are more prominent in certain areas than others, and researchers specified where they're found around the world in people who inject drugs.

If you’re planning on chowing down on turkey this Thanksgiving (as you should), make sure to time your meal just right, because you may be well into a nap before the Cowboys-Redskins game kicks off.

With sexual activity being a leading cause of HIV infection, researchers from the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) in Barcelona, Spain aimed to find how dolutegravir impacts the risk of HIV transmission.

Combining the common cold virus and a DNA-based vaccine revs up the immune system to fight the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), according to a team of researchers from the University of Adelaide in South Australia.

Researchers from the University of Louisville School of Public Health and Information Sciences in Kentucky examined one factor that could affect the disparity – drug policies.

Researchers from the University of California-San Francisco examined patients with specific back conditions and assessed the ways in which surgery helped them with their sex lives.