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A new report suggests that paying more attention to their mothers’ health, and focusing on certain damaging but treatable diseases, could be one key to tackling neonatal mortality.
21 May 2012 | IRIN
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Plasma and cervical viral load were discordant (one detectable, the other not) in almost half of 959 clinic visits made by HIV-positive US women. Because it reduces plasma HIV load, combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) proved the most reliable predictor of cervicovaginal shedding.
09 May 2012 | International AIDS Society
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(University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) The proportion of insured girls and young women completing the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among those who initiated the series has dropped significantly -- as much as 63 percent -- since the vaccine was approved in 2006, according to new research from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston.
05 May 2012 | Eurekalert Medicine & Health
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“It is high time that anal health [and hygiene] comes out of the closet” said Dr Ross Cranston, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Dr Cranston was referring to the multitude of anal health complications people practicing receptive anal intercourse are likely to be dealing with in their lives and very little quality care and products that exist to relieve them.
17 April 2012 | Citizen News Service
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Syphilis has made a dramatic resurgence in China during the past two decades and become the third most prevalent notifiable infectious disease in China. Female sex workers (FSWs) have become one of key populations for the epidemic. In order to investigate syphilis infection among different tiers of FSWs, a cross-sectional study was conducted in 8 sites in China.
04 April 2012 | BMC Infectious Diseases - Latest articles
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Younger girls are more likely than adult women to report side effects after receiving Gardasil, the human papillomavirus vaccine. The side effects are non-serious and similar to those associated with other vaccines, according to a new study.
04 April 2012 | Eurekalert Medicine & Health
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An increase in cases of dysentery caused by shigella infection
has been identified among men who have sex with men (MSM) across the UK,
according to preliminary findings from a Health Protection Agency (HPA)
investigation published today (Friday) in Eurosurveillance.
02 April 2012 | Health Protection Agency press release
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When it comes to treating precancerous anal lesions, electrocauterization is both more effective and, somewhat surprisingly, better tolerated than repeated topical applications of either Aldara (imiquimod) or Efudex (fluorouracil), according to data presented Thursday, March 8, at the 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle.
23 March 2012 | AIDSMeds
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The number of oral cancer cases diagnosed each year in the UK has risen above 6,000 for the first time, new figures from Cancer Research UK show today. Experts believe that infections with high-risk strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) may be a key reason for the jump in cases of oral cancer.
16 March 2012 | Cancer Research UK
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The PHAC's research has revealed that in the past decade strains of gonorrhea in
Canada have evolved and are losing their susceptibility to cefixime and
ceftriaxone. In other words, the concentration of these antibiotics
needed to kill gonorrhea-causing bacteria has significantly increased,
according to lab experiments.
14 March 2012 | CATIE
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