Sexually active people owe it to themselves and their partners to remain up to date on their sexual health screenings. It’s the best way to catch diseases early and begin necessary treatment, as well as avoid passing it to someone you care about.

STDs or sexually transmitted diseases do not always present with obvious symptoms. However, even those that do can go unnoticed. If you are wondering whether you have an STD or STI (sexually transmitted infection), you may want to know do normal blood tests show STDs on your routine blood work.

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Bloodwork is a common requirement for many new patients, as well as a main part of routine yearly checkups. The normal panel of blood tests is like a snapshot that your doctor can use to get a general picture of your overall health.

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For the last two years, everyone has been on the lookout for COVID-19 symptoms. Unfortunately, a complex illness like COVID-19 presents differently in different patients, often with many non-specific symptoms that could be caused by many other ailments. A fever and loss of taste used to be the COVID red flags, but the uncertainty of new variants like Omicron has caused many to question their COVID status in the presence of much less dramatic symptoms. Therefore, the first thought you may have if you start to feel back pain is to ask if COVID-19 could cause it.

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