STD rates are on the rise in Greenwich Village, and it looks like lots of ladies are doing the nasty in some, ahem, nasty ways, according to new data from the Health Department [pdf]. more ›

Seeing as how April is STD Awareness Month, now might be an appropriate time to hit you with some terrifying awareness. Are you sitting down? Because researchers say that gonorrhea is increasingly developing resistance to all of the antibiotics we have to treat it. Does that mean it's becoming a (gulp) SUPERBUG? "This may be the harbinger of things to come. The resistance may be getting worse," said Dr. Kimberly Workowski, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of STD Prevention. As if we needed yet another reason not to jump in the Gowanus Canal anytime soon. more ›

In 2005, the city started an education and testing program to help STD-infected high school students, but kids today just can't seem to get enough of these STDs, and now statistics suggest that more students are infected with chlamydia or gonorrhea than when the program started. Nearly 6 percent of the 11,410 teens who submitted voluntary confidential urine samples during the past school year tested positive for one of those two infections. While that percentage is lower than the 2007-08 school year (when 7.3 percent tested positive) it's still up from 2006-07, when the infection rate among a smaller sample of students was just 4.8 percent. more ›