HIV and syphilis rates were highest among MSM March 10, 2010
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Prevalence of genital herpes remains high March 9, 2010
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Certain behavioral factors linked to parents’ perceptions of HPV vaccine February 12, 2010
Behavioral factors, including cigarette smoking,
significantly influenced whether or not parents would allow their daughters to
receive the h......
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Sexually transmitted diseases affect one-in-four adolescent girls February 1, 2010
Three million U.S. girls aged 14 to 19 years are estimated to have at
least one of the five most common sexually transmitted diseases, data from......
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Repeated chlamydia infections common among young sexually active women December 16, 2009
There is a high incidence of repeated chlamydia
infections among young sexually active women. The majority of these repeated
infections wer......
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CDC: Chlamydia and gonorrhea remain most common STDs in United States
December 1, 2009
Adolescent girls and women aged 15 to 24 years accounted for
approximately half of the chlamydia cases and onethird of the gonorrhea
ca......
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Bivalent HPV may offer longer duration of protection December 1, 2009
Patients who were administered the bivalent HPV had higher immune
responses one year post-dose three than those administered the quadrivalent
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Bivalent HPV vaccine may provide cross- protection against additional oncogenic types December 1, 2009
At the recent Infectious Diseases Society of America meeting, held in
Philadelphia, Barbara Romanowski, MD, of the University of Alberta ......
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Vaccine appears effective in HPV-16–positive, high-grade vulvular intraepithelial neoplasia November 6, 2009
A synthetic long-peptide vaccine against specific HPV-16 oncoproteins
appeared to achieve clinical responses in women with HPV-16–positive,
g......
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Optimal guidelines needed for preventing neonatal herpes simplex virus November 5, 2009
The incidence of neonatal herpes simplex virus ranges
from as low as eight cases to as high as 60 cases per 100,000 live births in
the United......
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