Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Gonorrhea: What it is, symptoms, treatment and more
Commonly known as the "clap," gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted disease that can cause infertility in both women and men if left untreated.
Mar 16, 2023
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
An underused strategy for surge in STDs: Treat patients' partners without a doctor visit
If patients return to Dr. Crystal Bowe soon after taking medication for a sexually transmitted infection, she usually knows the reason: Their partners have re-infected them.
Nov 14, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Primary care doctors 'not doing enough' to curb STDs
Julie Lopez, 21, has been tested regularly for sexually transmitted diseases since she was a teenager. But when Lopez first asked her primary care doctor about screening, he reacted with surprise, she said.
Oct 23, 2018
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Health
Self-lubricating latex could boost condom use: study
A perpetually unctuous, self-lubricating latex developed by a team of scientists in Boston could boost the use of condoms, they reported Wednesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science.
Oct 17, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Number of infants born with syphilis reaches 20-year high: CDC
(HealthDay)—The number of newborns suffering from syphilis has nearly tripled in recent years, U.S. health officials reported Tuesday.
Sep 25, 2018
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HIV & AIDS
Amsterdam's red light district without a condom? 'Not for a million!'
"If they don't agree to using a condom, I kick them out," says Foxxy Angel, a 47-year-old platinum blonde sexworker, sporting some fearsome tattoos, in Amsterdam's notorious red light district.
Jul 22, 2018
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Pelvic exams do not help diagnose STDs in adolescent girls, study says
A pelvic exam does not improve a physician's ability to diagnose certain sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in adolescent female patients. That is chief among several reasons why the exam's "routine performance should be ...
Jul 3, 2018
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Health
Sex, drugs hold less allure for today's high schoolers
(HealthDay)—Today's teens are a much tamer lot, a new U.S. government survey finds.
Jun 14, 2018
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Health
The truth about teenage girls, consent and contraceptive implants
For years now newspapers have been reporting that girls as young as 12 are being given contraceptive implants without parental consent. In April, an article in the Daily Mail reported that more than 10,500 underage girls ...
Jun 14, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
California on front line as STDs run rampant in US
A billboard on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood screams out a stark warning: "drug-resistant gonorrhea alert!"
Jun 4, 2018
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Sexually transmitted infections (STI), also previously referred to as sexually transmitted diseases (STD) or venereal diseases (VD), are illnesses that has a significant probability of transmission between humans by means of human sexual behavior, including vaginal intercourse, oral sex, and anal sex. While in the past, these illnesses have mostly been referred to as STDs or VD, in recent years the term sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has been preferred, as it has a broader range of meaning; a person may be infected, and may potentially infect others, without having a disease. Some STIs can also be transmitted via the use of IV drug needles after its use by an infected person, as well as through childbirth or breastfeeding. Sexually transmitted infections have been well known for hundreds of years.
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