UNC Researchers Find Drug-Resistant HIV In Semen
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..."the data suggest transmission ofsusceptibility of genital tract cancers to subsequent generations." They saidthis concept is supported by results in male mouse siblings in which like thefemales described in this study, reproduction is not affected but rare cancersare observed. A report on the effects i...Health Promotion: Can Scare Tactics Work?
...s of a fear campaigndesigned to reduce the risk of genital warts caused by human papilloma virus(HPV) -- the number one sexually transmitted disease on many college campuses. About half of their sample of 219 college women received a brochure onHPV with vivid, personalized language describing the con...Novel Therapy To Treat Lung Cancer Patients Enrolling Patients At UCSF Cancer Center
...o lung cancerexceeds those from colon, breast, and genital cancers combined. The new UCSF study will be a phase II clinical trial, the stage of testingdesigned to determine a drug's effectiveness. To qualify for the anti-VEGFantibody trial at UCSF/Mount Zion, part of UCSF Stanford Health Care, patientsmus...... kind of protection against HIVtransmission in the genital track. One of the early products in the drug devel... blood may have detectable levels ofvirus in their genital tracks. Sensitive assays called DNA and RNA PCR(polymerase chain reaction) help to explain how the g...