Medically reviewed by Lauren Schlanger, MD Key Takeaways Taking a warm bath and using a cool compress can help manage genital ...

Herpes simplex virus (HSV) causes painful blisters and sores on the mouth or genitals. Treatment decreases outbreaks, but it cannot cure the infection. Genital herpes is a sexually transmitted ...

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Valacyclovir is a generic prescription oral tablet used to treat herpes simplex infections. Its mechanism of action is to make it harder for the herpes virus to multiply. The herpes virus spreads in ...

A drug long used to fight cancer may soon take on a very different role. Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have found that doxorubicin, an FDA-approved chemotherapy medicine, can block ...

Approximately two-thirds of the world's population under the age of 50 years have oral or genital herpes simplex type 1 (HSV-1) infection, while one in eight have herpes simplex type 2 (HSV-2) ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It's a pesky virus that affects two-thirds of the world population, but now USC researchers are turning the herpes simplex virus into an effective cancer fighter. One skin cancer ...