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Doctors Urge HIV Tests for All Patients Over 13

On World AIDS Day 2008, The American College of Physicians is recommending that all patients over age 13 get tested for the HIV virus which causes AIDS."The organization, which represents more than 126,000...

created by Terri Potratz | 51 wks ago | updated 51 wks ago
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Cyrus Sullivan Outs STD Carriers with Website

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Cyrus Sullivan Outs STD Carriers with Website

Cyrus Sullivan has created a site called STDCarriers.com, where he hopes to out STD carriers before they have a chance to infect more people after he himself contracted genital herpes from a girl who chose not to...

created by Terri Potratz | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Row over cervical cancer vaccine for girls

Penny pinching around important health issues like this can't be a good thing. If it's worth doing do it well. The task now, which ever vaccine is used, is to get the capaign right so that as many young girls take up the offer of the vaccine, which is best done before they...

created by LotusFlower | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Male fertility at risk from chlamydia

"The most common sexually transmitted disease in Britain may harm men's fertility by causing genetic damage to their sperm, research has shown. Chlamydia is widely known to damage women's fertility by causing...

created by LotusFlower | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Herpes Outbreak Shuts Down Catholic High School

The prep school was closed after a wrestler with lesions on his skin was diagnosed with the virus type 1, a form of the virus that has nothing to do with the sexually transmitted type. "Five members of the high school’s wrestling team were diagnosed with herpes...