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Turning Back the Cancer Clock

A new HPV vaccine that is currently being tested in the Netherlands looks like it may be able to turn back the cancer clock. Unlike current HPV vaccines that are designed to protect men and women from ever getting the virus, this new vaccine is for women who are already infected with HPV and suff...

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About.co...Diseases — Yesterday

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Stomping Out Genital Warts?

Results from an Australian study recently published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections found that the number of new cases of genital warts in young women dropped by 25% during each quarter of the first year after the country began providing the HPV vaccine. The number of cases seen in...

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About.co...Diseases — 3 days ago

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WHO said it...

Didn't think that a failure to practice safe sex was such a big deal? According to a new report from the World Health Organization, "Global life expectancy could be increased by nearly five years by addressing five factors affecting health - childhood underweight, unsafe sex, alcohol use, la...

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About.co...Diseases — 6 days ago

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About Face(book)

I have to admit that I'm fascinated by all the people who are using social networking sites as a venue for sex education. Case in point - the new HPV Factcheck Facebook tool that allows people to take a quiz about HPV and then share their results with their friends (or not) in order to improve t...

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About.co...Diseases — November 13

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HIV & HCV - A Dangerous Pairing

Research reports coming out of New York City, suggest that sex between HIV positive men is shifting the face of Hepatitis C infection (HCV). Although HCV is primarily thought of as a blood-borne illness, new research highlights that sexual transmission - during unprotected anal and oral sex are a...

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About.co...Diseases — November 11

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Unseasonal Illness

I was tickled pink when someone sent me this e-card to share with all of you, because it's true. Many people are scared witless of getting the swine flu, but won't even take the simplest precautions against contracting a sexually transmitted disease. I find it particularly amusing when individu...

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About.co...Diseases — November 08