Annie Knight has become known as Australia’s most sexually active woman, but she says she takes her health down there ...

In the last year, the FDA has approved two STD tests for at-home use that allow women to get fast diagnoses for syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea—three STDs with skyrocketing rates among midlife women ...

“I get tested every two weeks, swabs and blood tests and a urine test,’’ Knight ... screening tested for chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis, HIV and hepatitis if appropriate.

Over the last three decades, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have quietly but steadily climbed in Australia, with bacterial diseases like chlamydia, gonorrhoea, and syphilis spreading ...

Gonorrhea is diagnosed with a relatively simple lab test—usually a swab of the genitalia or a ... U.S. has also seen rising rates of congenital syphilis and persistently high rates of chlamydia ...

I'm now working on a story about an STD database that's been tracking antibiotic resistance among syphilis and gonorrhea ... FDA also lost lab scientists who test food and drugs for contaminants ...