Using a common antibiotic following sex can dramatically reduce a person's risk of some sexually transmitted infections, a ...

It was published on Jan. 6 in JAMA Internal Medicine. DoxyPEP is a new strategy for preventing STIs that involves taking a dose of doxycycline, a common and well-tolerated antibiotic medication, ...

The early rollout of doxyPEP — a dose of the antibiotic doxycycline after sex — has contributed to a decline in sexually ...

A new study tracked thousands of gay men taking PrEP and DoxyPEP.  A new study tracked thousands of gay men taking PrEP and ...

Both studies in JAMA Internal Medicine supported the rising profile of doxyPEP as a way to counter the epidemic of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia infections, even if the data ...

While the use of PrEP has helped drop the rates of HIV infections, instances of syphilis and chlamydia among queer men have ...

A new study in JAMA Internal Medicine led by the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute examined whether doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxyPEP) was associated with declines in bacterial ...

It was published on January 6 in JAMA Internal Medicine. DoxyPEP is a new strategy for preventing STIs that involves taking a dose of doxycycline, a common and well-tolerated antibiotic medication ...

Doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis has the potential to substantially reduce real-world population-level incidence of ...

Opens in a new tab or window A decrease in California's sexually transmitted infections (STIs) followed early real-world adoption of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxyPEP), suggesting ...

This is one of the first real-world studies to show the effectiveness of the tactic called doxyPEP, for doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis, researchers said. "Interventions that are effective ...