Using the internet's power and anonymity to reduce problem drinking
...des help for problems related to alcohol, sexually transmitted diseases, and tobacco. Research has shown that MSB may be an effective brief intervention for college students, especially women and low-motivation drinkers (those less likely to seek out services through other means). "MSB [showed] significant resu...International trial of two microbicides begins
...d to the surface of the vagina to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs)--will one day be a key tool in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Women make up nearly half of all people living with HIV worldwide. "The majority of new cases of HIV infection in women result from heterosexual intercourse, but women may n...Risk factors affect parents' attitudes about STD vaccinations
... their views on childhood vaccination for sexually transmitted diseases. The analysis of 278 parental vi...o vaccinating children or adolescents for sexually transmitted diseases," said Dr. Zimet. "Our research is proactive and we hope to provide physicians with an unde...Parents comfortable with vaccination for sexually transmitted infections for adolescent children
...ainst infection, whether the infection is sexually transmitted or not, according to a study in the February issue...s. Several vaccines for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are in development, according to background information in the article. Because an...Doctors need to prepare for blood shortages now
...e case of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) transmitted by transfusion have reduced the number of donors, writes the author. This comes on top of a general trend of falling number of donors. The Department of Health has also recently circulated a plan in case blood supplies run low. It suggests that hospi...Substance protects resilient staph bacteria
...everal hard-to-treat infectious agents that can be transmitted to patients in hospitals via contaminated medical implants. The new report concludes that the substance--known as poly-gamma-DL-glutamic acid, or PGA--must be present for S. epidermidis to survive on medical implants. S. epidermidis infections are ra...$10-million study explores men's role in transmitting HPV
...one to study men's roles in spreading the sexually transmitted organism linked to cervical cancer in women. The m...ilano says. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. It affects the skin in the genital area as well as the anal canal. ...From town planning to intimate sex: Understanding the risks in our lives
... relations and intimacy; how ideas about risk are transmitted between parents and children or through game shows and soap-operas; the part played by emotion in influencing risky choices; how successful new arrangements are for regulating private pensions and the Internet; the way governments and planners fin...US syphilis epidemics not driven by increases in unsafe sex say researchers
..."While we do not dispute the fact that syphilis is transmitted by unsafe sex, our findings suggest that change in population immunity is the main reason for periodic epidemics of syphilis, not change in sexual behaviour." After analysing data from 68 cities across the USA since the 1940s, the team found that ris...Researchers map the sexual network of an entire high school
... designing policies to stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases among adolescents, he said. The study was conducted by Peter Bearman of Columbia University, Moody, and Katherine Stovel of the University of Washington. The results were published in a recent issue of the American Journal of Sociology. The ...Male circumcision reduces risk of HIV transmission from women to men
...utes--and were screened for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. At the end of the study the probability of infection was calculated using a statistical model that incorporated published data to estimate the rates of HIV infection among the three types of sexual partners. For the men in the study, the ...Mandated parental notification laws concerning prescription contraception would affect teenagers
...ment were mandated; 5 percent would forgo sexually transmitted disease (STD) services. " this research confirms that parental involvement laws for minors seeking prescription contraception in family planning clinics would discourage few teenagers from having sex and would likely increase rates of adolescent preg...Shakespeare's writings indicate he may have had syphilis
...y uncommon now, it was rampant five centuries ago, transmitted from country to country by sailors, soldiers and m...yed facial tissue. Shakespeare alluded to sexually transmitted disease (STD) symptoms--and treatments--in several of his plays and poems, including Troilus and Cre...Making emergency contraception readily available does not increase unprotected intercourse
...ar contraception, or increase the risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), according to a study in the January 5 issue of JAMA. It is estimated that half of the 3.5 million unintended pregnancies that occur each year in the United States could be averted if emergency contraception (EC) were easily acces...Sex habits of young women unchanged by morning after pill, UCSF study finds
... UCSF researchers. Rates of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) were the same at the end of the six-month study regardless of whether women had increased access to EC. In the study, published in the January 5 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, 2,117 women age 15-24 in two...Study reveals high infection rate in teens for virus linked to cervical cancer
...search. Human papillomavirus is a common sexually transmitted infection and its effects may range from no symptoms to genital warts to cervical cancer. In the current study, 95 percent of the participants, ages 14 to 17 years, were sexually active, and the median number of sexual partners was two. Eighty-five p...Very high prevalence of virus linked to cervical cancer found in adolescent women
...apillomavirus (HPV) infection is a common sexually transmitted infection whose effects may range from asymptomatic carriage of the virus to genital warts to cervical cancer. In this study, 95 percent of the subjects were sexually active, and the median number of sexual partners was two. Eighty-five percent were ...New study shows how mad cow prions hitch a ride into intestine
...refore essential to understand how this disease is transmitted from one species to another, especially in the case of humans where the infectious prions survive through stages of cooking and digestion." Using brain tissues infected with the spontaneously occurring version of CJD which is also caused by prions, t...'Signal' identified that enables malarial parasites to target blood cells
...l Science. Malaria is a blood-borne illness transmitted by mosquitoes. Forty percent of the world's population lives at risk for infection, and between 200 and 300 million people are afflicted each year, particularly in underdeveloped and impoverished tropical and sub-Saharan countries. ......t antibodies to the virus. A committee of sexually transmitted disease (STD) experts in California considered the potential risks and benefits of HSV-2 screening in four groups of asymptomatic people: people at high risk for STDs, HIV-positive people, people whose partners have HSV-2 and pregnant women. The auth...