Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDS)

  • Gonorrhea Acquires a Piece of Human DNA
    If a human cell and a bacterial cell met at a speed-dating event, they would never be expected to exchange phone numbers, much less genetic material. In more scientific terms, a direct transfer of DNA has never been recorded from humans to bacteria. Until now. Northwestern ...More
    February 14, 2011
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  • Home Test Kits for STDs Proves Popular and Effective with Teens and Young Adults
    Infectious disease experts at Johns Hopkins say new research clearly shows that screening teens and young adults for sexually transmitted infections may best be achieved by making free, confidential home-kit testing available over the Internet. From a public health ...More
    February 11, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Morning-After Pill Linked to Increase in STDs
    Offering the morning after pill free over the counter has not reduced the number of teenage pregnancies and may be associated with a rise in sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), according to a report by experts at the University of Nottingham. Professors David Paton and ...More
    January 31, 2011
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  • Young Minority Women Screened at Higher Rate for Chlamydia Than Young White Women
    A new study from the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute has found that black and especially Hispanic young women are screened for chlamydia at a significantly higher rate than young white women. This discrepancy in screening rates may ...More
    January 24, 2011
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  • CDC Report Indicates 19 Million New STDs Annually
    According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report, "Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance, 2009," there are approximately 19 million new STD infections each year, which cost the U.S. healthcare system $16.4 billion annually and cost individuals even more in ...More
    November 24, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Very Few Eligible Young Women Opt to Take HPV Vaccine
    Despite strong evidence of its effectiveness, few of the young women who are eligible for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine take it, according to research presented at the Ninth Annual AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, held Nov. 7-10. What's ...More
    November 11, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Study Examines Risk of Heterosexual HIV Transmission in China
    A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health examines the burden of HIV and sexually transmitted disease among male clients of the commercial sex industry in China’s Sichuan province. Since 2007, heterosexual transmission has replaced ...More
    November 8, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Survey of American Women Finds STD Vaccine Viewed Positively
    Cost but not convenience plays a significant role in attitudes about vaccination for common human papillomaviruses for women over the age of 26, according to the authors of a recent article in the journal Sexual Health. Currently, the two vaccines for human papillomavirus ...More
    August 24, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Needle Sharing May Play a Major Role in Transmission of Syphilis
    A bi-national team of researchers led by University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered that active syphilis infections are significantly greater in female sex workers who inject drugs and share needles than those who don’t. The findings ...More
    April 29, 2010
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  • Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea Could be the Next Superbug
    The rise of multidrug resistance in gonorrhea-causing bacteria is threatening to make this sexually-transmitted infection extremely difficult to treat. Professor Catherine Ison, speaking at the Society for General Microbiology's spring meeting in Edinburgh, highlighted the ...More
    March 30, 2010
    Posted in News
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