Vaccines are one of the most important medical inventions of modern times that have saved and enhanced innumerable lives around the world. Despite the technological advances in vaccine design and ...

Genital herpes infections are very common. There are 42 million new infections each year — that averages out to one new person infected each second. While treatments can help with symptoms, there's no ...

Herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2) is a sexually transmitted infection that can cause painful, recurrent lesions in the genital skin and mucosa. HSV-2 initially infects genital epithelial cells before ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a healthy man in my late 40s. I was married for 18 years to my first sexual partner. Since my divorce three years ago, I have had two additional partners. These were casual flings ...

Infection with the herpes simplex virus (HSV) is for life. Although HSV-2 is the main cause of genital herpes, HSV-1 – the virus responsible for cold sores – can be transmitted by oral sex, so it, too ...

A German-American team of researchers has developed a compound that could affect latent herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections, reducing the risk of recurrence even after an infection had fully ...

Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy of a 1-day course of valacyclovir in reducing the duration and severity of genital herpes recurrences and to measure the frequency of viral shedding episodes ...

Infection with HSV can cause oral or genital warts, but it can also be fully asymptomatic. There are two types of HSV: herpes type 1 (HSV-1), mainly spread through oral contact herpes type 2 (HSV-2), ...

Serum YKL-40 levels in patients with cervical cancer are elevated compared to patients with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and healthy controls No significant financial relationships to disclose.