ATLANTA - More than 1 million cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States last year - the most ever reported for a sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES - A jury awarded nearly $7 million to a 56-year-old woman who said she was unknowingly infected with herpes by the 77-year-old founder of a hair-care company.

BANGKOK — For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possible.

A new report finds there are high rates of sexually transmitted diseases among people arrested in Maricopa County. The report was conducted in partnership between the Arizona Arrestee Reporting Information Network and ASU's Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety.

A family friend of an 11-year-old girl who was possibly raped, impregnated and infected with a sexually transmitted disease was arrested Friday after police identified him as a suspect.

ATLANTA - Gonorrhea has fallen to the lowest level on record in the United States, while the rates of other sexually transmitted diseases - syphilis and chlamydia - are on the rise, federal health officials said Tuesday.

Students at Arizona State University’s main campus can learn how to put on a condom and prevent sexually transmitted infections Tuesday during the STI Awareness Campus Tour on Hayden Lawn.

Infections are around us all our lives. Most seem to be short-lived, miserable bouts of intestinal or respiratory bugs that so often drive us to a doctor.

State Game and Fish investigators are trying to determine what caused the death of more than a dozen birds recently near a Scottsdale golf course.

State Game and Fish investigators are trying to determine what caused the death of more than a dozen birds recently near a Scottsdale golf course.

July 2, 2004

Gonorrhea is becoming more difficult to treat with readily available antibiotics. In time, a case may show up in the U.S. that doesn't respond to any drugs currently in use.

State health officials are spending $100,000 largely to tell gay men to get tested and, if necessary, treated for syphilis.

Tempe police arrested a man Wednesday on suspicion of child molestation after an examination revealed he may have given a sexually transmitted disease to his 8-year-old granddaughter, police said.

Selena Burgess stood in front of Hayden Lawn at ASU and handed out the red safe-sex packs to students on their way to class Monday.

The nation’s veterans disability system is severely strained and it could be strained to the point of collapse when 700,000 returning Iraq and Afghanistan war vets begin applying for help.

A debate at the Capitol over how schools should teach sex education turned into conflicting claims of exactly how much protection condoms provide against disease.

Sex can cause cancer. To young women, that may sound like the scare tactic of an overprotective mother. But doctors say a sexually transmitted virus that often has no symptoms can lead to cervical cancer, which kills thousands of women each year.

Sex can cause cancer. To young women, that may sound like the scare tactic of an overprotective mother. But doctors say a sexually transmitted virus that often has no symptoms can lead to cervical cancer, which kills thousands of women each year.

July 29, 2004

TRENTON, N.J. - The first large study of an experimental cervical cancer vaccine found it was 100 percent effective, in the short term, at blocking the most common forms of the disease, drugmaker Merck & Co. said Thursday. Its shares rose more than 2 percent in morning trading.

TRENTON, N.J. - The first major study of an experimental vaccine to prevent cervical cancer found it was 100 percent effective, in the short term, at blocking the disease and lesions likely to turn cancerous, the drugmaker Merck & Co. said Thursday. Its shares rose nearly 6 percent.

August 18, 2004

ATLANTA - For the first time since the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, more than a million Americans are believed to be living with the virus that causes AIDS, the government said Monday.