Medically reviewed by Lauren Schlanger, MD Key Takeaways Taking a warm bath and using a cool compress can help manage genital herpes symptoms.Practicing safer sex, like wearing a condom, helps prevent ...

A World Health Organization (WHO) director has called for "better prevention and treatment options" after the agency released new estimates of genital herpes prevalence. Dr Meg Doherty, director of ...

Ruvidar(TM) demonstrates higher efficacy in the treatment of Herpes Simplex Virus, Type 1 versus the standard of care treatments Acyclovir and Abreva in a preclinical animal model. Herpes Simplex ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released new estimates suggesting around 846 million people aged between 15 and 49 live with a genital herpes infection. That’s equivalent to one in every ...

No over-the-counter product can treat genital herpes or any other sexually transmitted infection, regulators say ...

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 ...

A retrospective study of 391 women treated with radiotherapy for gynaecological cancers found herpetic reactivation in 5.6 ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. In a discovery that challenges conventional ...