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WHO to Issue Guidance on Hormonal Contraceptives and HIV

Current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines call on health service providers to remind patients, that neither hormonal contraceptives nor intrauterine devices known as IUDs offer protection against HIV or other sexually transmitted infections. Later this month WHO ...More
3 days ago
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Roche Receives FDA Clearance for Test to Screen and Diagnose Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Infection

Roche announces that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has provided 510(k) clearance to the cobas® CT/NG Test for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) infections in both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients from male urine and ...More
2 weeks ago
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Skeletons Point to Columbus Voyage for Syphilis Origins

Skeletons don't lie. But sometimes they may mislead, as in the case of bones that reputedly showed evidence of syphilis in Europe and other parts of the Old World before Christopher Columbus made his historic voyage in 1492. None of this skeletal evidence, including 54 ...More
December 21, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Behavioral Interventions Can Reduce STDs

Behavioral interventions aimed at reducing sexual risk behaviors, such as unprotected sex, are effective at both promoting condom use and reducing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) long after the initial intervention, according to a new report in the Dec. 15, 2011 ...More
December 15, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
STDs Escalating in the Over-50 Crowd

According to an article in the November/December issue of the journal MEDSURG Nursing, rates of HIV/AIDS, herpes, syphilis, human papilloma virus (HPV), and other STDs are climbing steadily in this age group. But the news gets worse: thanks to ageism and social stigmas, ...More
December 12, 2011
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Researchers Herald Significant Breakthrough in Study of Chlamydia

A breakthrough in the study of chlamydia genetics could open the way to new treatments and the development of a vaccine for this sexually transmitted disease. For decades research progress has been hampered because scientists have been prevented from fully understanding ...More
October 13, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Linked to Trichomoniasis, a Common STI

A new study published in the American Journal of Public Health finds that neighborhood environment plays a role in the risk of acquiring trichomoniasis, a common and easily curable sexually transmitted infection. Researchers examined the relationship between neighborhoods ...More
July 22, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Scientists Discover First Gonorrhea Strain Resistant to All Available Antibiotics

An international research team has discovered a strain of gonorrhea resistant to all currently available antibiotics. This new strain is likely to transform a common and once easily treatable infection into a global threat to public health. The details of the discovery made ...More
July 11, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
FDA, FTC Act to Remove Fraudulent STD Products From the Market

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today announced a joint effort to remove products from the market that make unproven claims to treat, cure, and prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Among the products targeted in today’s ...More
May 3, 2011
Posted in News
EDs Should be Aware of Sexually Transmitted Infection Risk in Patients

All adolescent females who show up in the emergency department (ED) complaining primarily of lower abdominal pain and/or urinary or genital symptoms should be tested for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), according to the authors of a study presented last week at the ...More
May 2, 2011
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