Medical News: Improvements in Teen Sexual Health Waning - in Public Health & Policy, Public Health from MedPage Today

"After decreasing for more than 20 years, gonorrhea infection rates leveled off, while syphilis rates have been increasing, CDC's Lorrie Gavin, PhD, and colleagues reported in the July 17 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

'The sexual and reproductive health of America's young persons remains an important public health concern,' the researchers said. 'Earlier progress appears to be slowing and perhaps reversing.'"