Sexually Transmitted Diseases

5 Barriers To Pregnancy Success (Besides Your Biological Clock)

The Huffington Post | Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Infertility, Infertility Treatments, Pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Fertility, Obesity, National Infertility Awareness Week, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Black Voices News

It isn't easy getting pregnant, and there are some 7.3 million infertile women in the U.S. to prove it. For black women, trying to conceive is an even...

Read Whole Story

The Most Important Sex Advice For Post 50s

The Huffington Post | Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Middle Age Sex, Sex in Midlife, Stds After 50, Stds, Stis After 50, Stds Midlife, Stis Midlife, Sex After 50, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Health Post50, Stis, Love Post50, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Fifty News

Yet another warning this week that post 50s are in denial about the need to practice safe sex. According to British researchers writing in the medical...

Read Whole Story

Boy Sues School Paper For Using His Photo In STD Story

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Stds, Newspapers, Video, Std, School Paper, STD Lawsuits, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Newspaper Lawsuits, School Papers, Education News

Kenneth Clements, a former student at Ronald Reagan High School in Miami, Fl., claims the school paper, the Reagan Advocate, used his photo without hi...

Read Whole Story

'Free Love' Comes With A Price

Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Stds, Safe Sex, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Unsafe Sex, Condoms, Love Post50, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Seniors STDs, Fifty News

Last month, we addressed the most common sex myths about baby boomers, debunking the false assumption that as people age, they lose their desire to ha...

Read Whole Story

Mother Lies To School, Says Daughter's Rival Has Sex Disease

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Prestigious Schools, Application Fraud, Application Lies, Stds, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Private Schools, School Applications, Prestigious Private Schools, Video, Education News

Forget spending days on an application essays and laboring over character references. One mother from Queenstown, New Zealand has admitted to taking d...

Read Whole Story

Time to Start Talking

Vanessa Cullins | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Syphilis, Bisexual, Sex, Chlamydia, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Sexually Transmitted Infections, African-American AIDS, Bv-Life, African-American Health, HIV Prevention, AIDS Prevention, African American Stis, African American Sexually Transmitted Disease, African American Stds, Black Voices News

While STIs cross all racial lines, African Americans are disproportionately at risk for such common infections as chlamydia, gonorrhea, herpes, and syphilis. African-American women must take the first step to protect our health: Talk about sex.

Read Post

Why The HPV Vaccine Isn't Sticking

Jeffrey Levi | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Prevention, Healthy Living Body, HPV Vaccine, Sex, HPV Vaccine Teens, Hpv Cancer, Healthy Living News

While HPV is becoming as common as a cold, with at least 50 percent of sexually active men and women contracting HPV at some point in their lives, the HPV vaccine is barely catching on.

Read Post

Texas Planned Parenthood Clinic Attacked With Molotov Cocktail

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Women's Reproductive Rights, Abortion, Texas, Free Clinic, Family Planning, Molotov Cocktail, Women's Health, Reproductive Rights, Anti-Abortion-Violence, Reproductive Health, Planned-Parenthood-Texas, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Contraception, Planned Parenthood, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Politics News

A McKinney, Texas, Planned Parenthood clinic that does not provide abortions was attacked with a Molotov cocktail late Tuesday night, causing a small ...

Read Whole Story

A Sex Parasite Most Common In Women Over 40?

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 09.11.2011

A sex parasite that causes one of the most common sexually transmitted infections is nearly twice as prevalent in women 50 and older, according to new...

Read Whole Story

Special Delivery: Anonymous E-Card Urges Ex-Lovers To Take STD Tests

Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: inspot.org, E-Card, Card, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Std, Cards, Std E-Cards, Weird Health, E-Cards, Video, Weird News News

When you care enough to send the very best, you choose Hallmark. When you need to send the very worst, you choose an anonymous e-card that warns previ...

Read Whole Story

Decapitated Head Of St. Vitalis, Patron Saint Of Genital Disease, To Be Sold At Auction

AOL Weird News | David Moye | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Stds, Severed Saint Skull for Sale, Offbeat Religion, Weird Auctions, Vitalis Skull on Auction Block, St. Vitalis of Assisi, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Skull, Vitalis, Weird Ireland, Patron Saint of Genital Disease, Weird News News

The term "VD" is slang for venereal disease, but, in this case, it can also stand for "Vitalis' Dome," as in St. Vitalis, the patron saint for genital...

Read Whole Story

HPV Risk From Oral Sex Is Underestimated

Leigh Vinocur, M.D. | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Oral Sex Hpv, Hpv, Stds, Human Papillomavirus, Std, Sex, Hpv Cancer, Oral Sex Cancer, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Oral Sex, Oral Sex STD, Hpv in Men, Home News

There was also this disturbing notion that many teens think of oral sex as a low-risk sexual activity; they have a misguided notion that it has less of a risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases.

Read Post

Three Children Honor Their Late Mother by Raising Awareness of Anal Cancer and HPV

Jennifer Utz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hpv, Anal Cancer, Anal-Cancer, Cancer, Human Papillomavirus, Human-Papillomavirus-Vaccine, Gardisil, Cervarix, Cancer Screening, Ovarian Cancer, Cervical Cancer, Pap-Smears, Pharmaceutical, Stds, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Impact News

I wanted to share the story of a group of individuals who have taken a great tragedy and turned it into something positive.

Read Post

STD Testing: Which Tests You Should Get and Why

Health.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sex, HIV/AIDS, Stds, HIV Cure, Std Testing, STD Test, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Home News

Doctors have their own opinions about who should be tested for which sexually transmitted disease (STD), but it's really up to you. When official ...

Read Whole Story

Vegan Condom Company Starts Up In Boulder

Boulder Daily Camera | Brittany Sovine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Trojan Condoms, Safe Sex, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Contraception, Sir Richards, Std, Vegan Condom, Condoms, Boulder Condom, Aids, Denver News

Sir Richard's is a new Boulder-based condom company that plans to market toward a younger crowd, but also donate condoms worldwide to prevent the spre...

Read Whole Story

Why an STD Test Could Save Your Life

Joan Malin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Testing, Stds, Sexual Health, Chlamydia, Sex, Health, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Planned Parenthood, Gonorrhea, Health Care, New York City, New York News

Before you convince yourself that you're not at risk, consider the facts. The most recent national estimates suggest that there are approximately 19 million new cases of STIs each year.

Read Post

Ding! You've Got Chlamydia

Leslie Goldman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: STDtestexpress.Com, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Std, Hiv, Michelle Sobel, Healthy Living News

Considering April is STD Awareness Month, I thought it would be the perfect time to ask Michelle Sobel, co-founder of STDTestExpress.com, about the ever-rising rates of sexually transmitted infections.

Read Post

Illinois' High STD Rate: Health Officials Encourage STD Testing

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: STD Rates, Illinois Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Center for Disease Control, Illinois Department of Public Health, Chlamydia, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Illinois STDs, Stds, Gonorrhea, Chicago News

It's National STD Awareness Month--and Illinois residents should think about getting tested. According to the the Illinois Department of Public Heal...

Read Whole Story

'Dead End Gene Pool': Hilarious Dysfunction At The End Of The Vanderbilt Line

The Huffington Post | Wendy Burden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Misogyny, Richard Hunt, Acne, Std, Richest in the World, Richest Man in America, Corporate Greed, Vanderbilt, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Gilded Age, Inbreeding, Dysfunctional Family, Books News

From "Dead End Gene Pool" by Wendy Burden Prologue It's a testament to his libido, if not his character, that Cornelius Vanderbilt died of syphilis ...

Read Whole Story

Religious Groups Pledge To End AIDS Stigma

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stigamtization, Islam, Hiv, Africa, Roman Catholic Church, Judaism, Public Health, HIV/AIDS, Religion, Hinduism, AIDS Stigma, Christianity, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Morality, HIV/AIDS Africa, Buddhism, Aids, HIV Stigma, Condoms, Religion News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Religious groups from around the globe pledged Tuesday to prevent the stigmatization of people living with HIV and AIDS...

Read Whole Story

Free Female Condoms: D.C. To Be DFirst U.S. city to give away free female condoms to fight HIV/AIDS

washingtonpost.com | Darryl Fears | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Female Condoms AIDS, Aids, Hiv, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Female Condoms HIV, Free Female Condoms, Female Condoms, Condoms, Healthy Living News

The District will become the first city in the United States to distribute female condoms free, part of a project that will make 500,000 of them avail...

Read Whole Story

Woman Sues Husband Claiming He Gave Her Herpes

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Cook County Circuit Court, Herpes, Cook County Court, Lawsuit, Chicago News

A Cook County woman filed a lawsuit Friday seeking $50,000 from her husband, who she claims gave her herpes. The unnamed plaintiff claims that she ...

Read Whole Story

Reproductive Education Program Helps Break Poverty Cycle

Reproductive Justice | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Teen Pregnancy Rate, Teen Pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Stds, Abstinence Education, Abstinence Only, Sexually Transmitted Infections, South Carolina, Contraception, Birth Control, Reproductive Justice, Impact News

When Precious joined our teen pregnancy prevention program, she was 10 years old and headed straight back toward the cycle of poverty that she had come from.

Read Post

Infertility Inequality

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Education, Smoking, Infertility, Health, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Obesity, Race, Surrogates, Inequality, Healthcare, Parenting, Healthy Living News

The haves have less infertility than the have-nots, which is not surprising considering its causes include poor overall health condition, smoking and obesity.

Read Post

Cervix Not Required: An Interview with Dr. Adina Nack

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 11.17.2011

Last Friday, the FDA approved the HPV vaccine for use in boys and men. Why is Gardasil only now being approved for males, when it was approved three years ago for females?

Read Post