Members of a new class of antivirals are being tested in U.S. clinical trials, and one has gained approval in Japan, but how ...

Harvard Medical School researchers have uncovered crucial insights into how an emerging class of antiviral drugs works.

For the first time, scientists have captured how new antiviral drugs halt the herpes virus in real time as it tries to ...

Genital herpes is a common sexually transmitted disease. It’s caused by two different viruses called herpes simplex type 1 (HSV-1) and herpes simplex type 2 (HSV-2). You get genital herpes by having ...

Herpes esophagitis is inflammation and irritation of the esophagus due to a herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection. Herpes esophagitis mostly occurs in people with weakened immune systems. The esophagus ...

Researchers may have finally revealed the way that herpes is able to go into and come out of hiding. Share on Pinterest New research helps explain how the herpes virus, depicted here, comes out of its ...

Jenelle Marie Davis, 34, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, will gladly explain why having herpes isn’t the end of the world. But she didn’t always feel that way. It took years for Davis, founder of The STD ...

Are you sure you don’t have herpes? Two-thirds of people under the age of 50 are believed to carry the herpes virus, according to a recent report from the World Health Organization (WHO). The even ...

You can have a fulfilling sex life if you have genital herpes, even though it may be more complicated than it was before your diagnosis. Now, you must be careful about what you do and when you do it.

A lot of people have herpes. In fact, by the age of 50, 90% of people will have been exposed to the virus. If so many people have it already, and all of us will almost definitely come into contact ...

A California court upholds a $6.75M award to a woman infected with herpes. March 17, 2011— -- A California court rejected millionaire Thomas Redmond's appeal on Monday, upholding a jury's earlier ...