New research suggests that bacterial vaginosis can be sexually transmitted, meaning men can reinfect their female partners.

Despite numerous therapeutic research efforts, treatment of BV remains cumbersome and clinicians are currently rather poorly armed to treat BV properly in the long run. Moreover, appraisal of the ...

Roughly one out of three women ages 14-49 in the United States develop a vaginal bacterial imbalance known as bacterial ...

That fishy smell? It’s bacterial vaginosis. A new study shows it’s an STI, and male partners should be treated to stop the ...

“[It] kept popping out and just smacking us between the eyes, and we got to a point where we thought ‘we just have to do a partner treatment trial.’” BV occurs when the perfect storm of ...

Women with BV in monogamous relationships were randomly assigned to either the partner-treatment group or the control group. In the partner-treatment group, women received standard antimicrobial ...

is now offering a male bacterial vaginosis (BV) partner treatment, it announced Tuesday. New York City-based Wisp is a direct-to-consumer company offering treatments for different sexual and ...

Wisp, the largest pure play women's telehealth company in the U.S. focused on providing sexual and reproductive health ...

"The addition of combined oral and topical antimicrobial therapy for male partners to the treatment of women for bacterial vaginosis resulted in a lower rate of recurrence of bacterial vaginosis ...

Bacterial vaginosis is confined to an asymptomatic state in at least half of the cases. Symptomatic BV, on the other hand, is most typically accompanied by foul-smelling, profuse vaginal discharge ...