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Routine testing key to reducing sexually transmitted diseases
Here's a sobering fact: More than 110 million people in the United States, which is more than one-third of the population, currently have a sexually transmitted disease. In 2010 alone, more than 8,000 Orange County residents were newly diagnosed with an...Tags: AIDS, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health Insurance Cost, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Check your child's vaccination record
The Kid's Doctorhttp://www.kidsdr.com It's important to remember that not only infants and young children need vaccines. Older children (and even adults) continue to need vaccinations, and some vaccines are not given until a child is in his or her 'tween and teen years....Tags: Whooping Cough, Drugs and Medicines, Diseases and Illnesses, HPV Vaccine, Vaccines
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More vaccinations needed
Khaleej TimesAt least four out of every 100,000 children under five in the UAE die due to gastroenteritis each year, caused by the rotavirus, which can be prevented through vaccination, according to health experts. Marking Vaccination Week in the Eastern...Tags: Rotavirus, Medical Specialization, Vaccines, Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Gynecology
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BRIEF: Medical organizations announce vaccine campaign
The Lebanon Daily StarMedical organizations announced Thursday they are working to increase the number of people in the country vaccinated against dangerous viruses such as Human Papilloma Virus and rotavirus. The Lebanese Pediatric Society and Merck Sharp and Dohme Lebanon,...Tags: Merck & Company Incorporated, Rotavirus, Vaccines, Preventative Medicine, General Practitioners
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A healthy dose of data
The daily broadcast of medical reports, scientific studies and sociological statistics can cause your ears to ring. Sometimes a report will contradict the findings of another issued just days earlier. More often, compelling snapshots of the American...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Substance Abuse, Demographics, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Newspaper and Magazine
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The cost of sexually transmitted disease
Doctors and patients alike are often uncomfortable talking about sexual health and sexually transmitted disease. But a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report shows that this squeamishness costs society millions of dollars spent trying to...Tags: Vaccines, High Blood Pressure, AIDS, Sexual Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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HPV may reactivate in older women
Scientists have always thought the HPV virus clears most women after a couple of years, but new evidence suggests it may linger in the body undetected and reappear later in life. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Diseases and Illnesses, Viral Diseases and Infections, Science and Technology, Medical Research
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Let’s Start 2013 by Preventing Cervical Cancer
Orlando Opinionators - Orlando SentinelJanuary is cervical cancer awareness month, and at Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando, we are ringing in the new year by talking prevention all month long. Cervical cancer is one of the most deadly forms of cancer in women. It’s also the most... -
More info on vaccines
I'm writing in resonse to Kenneth VanAntwerp M.D. commentary on Oct. 31 about Gardasil. The Gardasil supposedly protects you from only four different strains of HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) when there are more than 100 different strains of HPV. Fifty-...Tags: Vaccines, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, Smallpox , Biology
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January Is cervical health awareness month
Cervical cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths among women worldwide, yet it is almost always preventable with the Pap test. Cervical cancer grows slowly, as abnormal cells begin to change into a pre-cancerous state. For some women, pre-...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, HPV Vaccine, Diseases and Illnesses, Disease Prevention, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Pap smears can detect ovarian and endometrial cancers, Hopkins scientists find
Johns Hopkins scientists have found a way to screen for hard-to-detect endometrial and ovarian cancers in women using a routine Pap smear, a discovery they hope eventually could reduce the number of deaths caused by the deadly malignancies.
The...Tags: Medical Specialization, Ovarian Cancer, Medical Procedures and Tests, Virginia Commonwealth University, Gynecology
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Getting snippy over adult circumcision
Is it healthy to get circumcised well into your mid-40s? And can not being circumcised cause urinary tract infections?--Anon. Like my first boyfriend, I thank you sir, for putting the fate of your penis in my very unqualified hands. Circumcision is a...
Tags: HIV, Syphilis, Genital Herpes, Penile cancer, American Academy of Pediatrics
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