Sexual Health Information for Teens: Health Tips About Sexual Development, Reproduction, Contraception, and Sexually Transmitted Infections; Sexuality, ... Chlamydia, Gonorrhea (Teen Health Series)
haines09 | yesterday
Your Australian student visa has been approved and you’re ready to study in the most respective schools in Australia. A new life, new environment and people, this will make like a start of your new grown-up life. However since you’re living away from your family and friends, you need to know how to take care of yourself. Living in a new country for the first time is quite hard for a student
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sexually spread diseases continue to rise, with reported chlamydia cases setting yet another record in 2008, officials at the Centers for Disease Control recently reported. The CDC estimates that approximately 19 million new STD infections occur each year. Approximately half of them occur in young people between 15 to 24 years of age. "Part of the challenge of treating a young person is to have...
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Filed under: Sexual Health African-Americans continue to bear a greater burden of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) than any other racial or ethnic group in the United States. A CDC report released this week shows that, just as is the case for the HIV epidemic, African-Americans are disproportionately impacted by other STDs. Both the number of STD cases reported in 2008, and rates of all three nationally...
Pregosaur (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Today is CD17 and I have not yet detected an LH surge. If my cycle is long, like the last one, then it is entirely possible that it is still coming. I'm not feeling like I'm ovulating or about to ovulate though. I used to be able to tell from ovulation cramping and cervical mucus. Now, I have no idea. Perhaps my body is still adjusting after my miscarriage in July. I am committed to using the OPKs...
Stand Your Ground (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Sarah Flicker, a York University professor, claims that " access to sexual-health education is a basic human right ". But judging from her arguments against Alberta's bill 44, (which enshrined parents' right to withdraw their children from classes on so called "sexual orientation", sexuality or religion,) she apparently believes that this "right" is in fact a duty. "It's...
The Westerner (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Washington, D.C., had the dubious distinction of beating all 50 states to post the highest rates in the nation for the sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) Chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta... CNS That's what happens when you screw so many people.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Rates of the three most common sexually transmitted infections in the U.S. -- chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis -- continue to increase, especially among teenagers, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released Monday, Reuters reports. The study reported that the number of reported chlamydia cases increased from 1.1 million in 2007 to 1.2 million in 2008.
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Proving yet again that America leads the world, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today that our nation has set a new record for sexually transmitted diseases . In 2008, we clocked in an all time high of 1.2 million new cases of Chlamydia and an estimated 6.2 million of HPV. Syphilis, which once looked to have gone the way of prohibition and ragtime, has also mounted an...
About Gay Life (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Chlamydia set another transmission record in 2008, according to newly released CDC statistics. 1.2 million new cases of chlamydia were reported in 2008, up from 1.1 million in 2007. Also on the rise: syphilis , hpv ,and HIV . The government estimates there are roughly 19 million new cases of sexually transmitted disease annually. How much of this data represents men who have sex with men? Who knows,...
Mizozo (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Sexually transmitted diseases ( STD ) like chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis are on the rise in US especially in teens according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ). "Chlamydia and gonorrhea are stable at unacceptably high levels and syphilis is resurgent after almost being eliminated," said John Douglas, director of the division of sexually transmitted diseases at the...
BooMan Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Jesus must hate America, because under George Bush he allowed Christians ideologues and con artists to promote and profit from abstinence only sex education. A policy they counted on on to stop teenage sex hasn't stopped sexual behavior by young people. All it's done is increase the rate of sexually transmitted diseases in America: "Chlamydia and gonorrhea are stable at unacceptably high levels...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The NHS is accused today of failure, wasting money and missing key targets in its £150m campaign to curb the spread of the country's most common sexually transmitted disease. Problems in implementing the £150m national chlamydia screening programme (NCSP) means the total number of under-25s tested for the infection is signficantly below target, says a National Audit Office (NAO) report....
Thomas Kraemer (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
PHOTO: AIDS was first noticed in 1981. By April of 1984, scientists in France and America announced they had discovered the virus likely to cause AIDS. But Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, M.D. would not be allowed to publish the eight-page safe sex educational brochure ("Understanding AIDS," prepared by the Surgeon General and the Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Public Health Service,...
Medical Marginalia (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
So, as many of you know, I have joined the ranks of academia. Ha ha, no I haven't seen all ADD and STIs. You're funny. In fact, I haven't seen an STI in the four-plus months since I started. That makes me a little sad. I miss trich. I haven't seen a lot since residency and for some reason, seeing that little protozoa swimming happily all over my microscope field always cheered me up. The protocol for...
PLoS ONE (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Background Chlamydia trachomatis is a major human pathogen with a unique obligate intracellular developmental cycle that takes place inside a modified cytoplasmic structure known as an inclusion. Following entry into a cell, the infectious elementary body (EB) differentiates into a non - infectious replicative form known as a reticulate body (RB). RBs divide by binary fission and at the end of the...
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haines09 | yesterday
Your Australian student visa has been approved and you’re ready to study in the most respective schools in Australia. A new life, new environment and people, this will make like a start of your new grown-up life. However since you’re living away from your family and friends, you need to know how to take care of yourself. Living in a new country for the first time is quite hard for a student like you....
aasthahealthcare | 09/09/2009
What is Ectopic pregnancy? Once the egg gets fertilized, it travels down the fallopian tube to uterus. But when the tubes are damaged or blocked and fail to propel the egg toward the womb, the egg may become implanted in the tube and continue to develop there. Because almost all Ectopic pregnancies occur in one of the fallopian tubes, they are often called "tubal" pregnancies. Much less often, an egg...
zitromax | 09/02/2009
If you need to fight a wide variety of bacterial infections, you may be prescribed the macrolide antibiotic drug called zithromax. The antibiotic may be used to treat infections of the ears, skin or soft tissue, lower or upper airways (bronchitis, pneumonia), and nasal throat, nasal passages or sinuses such as tonsillitis or sinusitis. Zithromax may also be prescribed to treat a sexually transmitted...
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