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Surprising Sex Ed Survey Has Some Experts Calling For Changes

Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Video, Sex Ed, Std, Pregnancy Prevention, Sex, Science, Schools, Std Education, Sex Education, Science News

By: MyHealthNewsDaily Staff Published: 04/05/2012 01:31 PM EDT on MyHealthNewsDaily Schools have made little progress in recent years in teachin...

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How I Live With An STD

Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: HPV Vaccine, Hpv, Stds, Living With an Std, Cervical Cancer, Std, Women Hpv, Cervical Cancer Screening, Women News

Anonymous | The Daily Muse From the time I received the first call notifying me of my abnormal Pap smear results until the day the doctor confir...

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The Real Impact of Silence on Women's Health

Tanya Abreu | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Breast Cancer, Spirit of Women, Health Insurance, Std, Aids, Health Screening, Susan B. Komen, Domestic Violence, Tanya Abreu, Women News
Tanya Abreu

Together we can eradicate suffering in silence, the shame about our bodies that prevents us from getting the care we need, and the senseless deaths of women waiting too long in silence.

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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...

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Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: Sex Education: Does Abstinence-Only Education Really Work?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Teen Mom, Sex Ed, Children, Abstinence, Science, Sex Education, Education, Video, Std, Talk Nerdy to Me, Sex, Teens, Teen Pregnancy, Birth Control, Cara Santa Maria, Sti, Condoms, Education News

2011-11-18-djfkdjfkjioejfkdkjiejie.jpgScience illuminates sexuality. And that is why it is so important that we learn about our bodies at an early age.

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WATCH: Former Porn Actress Pleads For Condom Use In Films

AP | By SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Std, Condoms in Porn, Aids, Sexually Transmitted Disease, Sti, Mandatory-Condoms-in-Porn, Free Speech Coalition, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Video, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES -- If a health advocacy group gets enough petition signatures, Los Angeles residents could be asked to vote on whether porn producers must...

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Catherine Pearson

A Sex Parasite Most Common In Women Over 40?

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Stds, STD Rates, Parasites, Std Women, Trich, Std Older Women, Std Reporting, Std CDC, Sex Education, Std, Women's Health, Sex, Trichomonas, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Sti, Sexually Transmitted Parasite, Sex Parasite, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Std Testing, Video, Healthy Living News

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...

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

Posted 11.16.2011

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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...

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How To Make Sex-Ed Work For Teens

Deb Levine | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: Sexual Health, Social Media, Youth, Mobile Health, New Media, Technology, Sex Education, Sexuality, Herpes, Hiv, Teen Pregnancy, Std, Parenting, Healthy Living News
Deb Levine

Many sex education techniques are, at best, moderately successful, say youth. Different content is needed to engage young people in their own sexual health, and in more forms.

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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
Leigh Vinocur, M.D.

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.

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Weekly Pulse: DADT, Vampire Bees, and Other Hazards to Your Health

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Bachmann, Lgbt, Honey, RH Reality Check, San Diego, Brooklyn, Hyde Amendment, Monica Potts, Kenneth Katz, Crackpot, Military, Dadt, Sti, Bee, Affordable Care Act, Grist, Abortion, Stupak, Beekeeping, New York, Food Stamps, Red Hook, Gay, Planned Parenthood, Choice, Recession, Sarah Goodyear, Tapped, Campus Progress, Hunger, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Health Care Reform, Std, Doctor, Home News
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By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Dr. Kenneth Katz recently published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine titled "Health...

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WATCH Bill Maher: 'There Doesn't Need To Be An App For Everything'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: STD Test, Iphone, iPhone App, Video, Bill Maher, Std, Bill O'Reilly, Comedy News

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. That seems to be Bill Maher's sentiment regarding news that doctors are developing a new iPhone applic...

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South Africa's 'Government Condom' Campaign Has Mixed Results

GlobalPost | Iva Skoch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV Protection, Hiv, Condoms, Latex, Pregnancy, Sex, HIV Prevention, Teen Pregnancy, Sex Education, South Africa, Contraceptive, Std, Government Condoms, Pornography @Y:World, Aids, Protected Sex, World News

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Julie Peroni liked everything about her new boyfriend and she couldn't wait for the first time he spent the night. "Things...

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South African Prisoners Are Offered Circumcision For AIDS Campaign

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prisoners Get Circumcized, HIV/AIDS, South Africa, Hiv, Men's Health, Disease Control, Male Circumcision, Std, Sexually Transmitted Disease, Health, Circumcision, Aids, World News

In an effort to slow the spread of HIV in one of the country's highest-infected regions, prisoners in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province are now be...

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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...

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1 Chinese Baby Born With Syphilis Every Hour

AP | MARGIE MASON | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Syphilis Prevention, Hiv, Deafness, Babies, Shanghai, Newborn Deformities, Syphilis, Neurological Problems, Prostitution, Std, Health, Aids, Sti, Children's Health, China, Healthy Living News

Every hour a baby is born in China with syphilis, as the world's fastest-growing epidemic of the disease is fueled by men with new money from the nati...

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How to Get a Sexually Transmitted Disease Without Having Sex

Dr. Andrew Lange | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Stds, Std Testing, Health, Std, STD Health, STD Test, Healthy Living News
Dr. Andrew Lange

Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) can be transmitted without sex, that is, without intercourse. Even grandma kissing you at Christmas might pass on cold sores (a herpes virus).

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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
Leslie Goldman

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.

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Who Put Failed Ab-Only Programs Back in Health Care Reform?

Reproductive Justice | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Teen Pregnancy Rate, Std, Obama Sex Education, Abstinence Only, Reproductive Rights, Teen Pregnancy, Abstinence, Health Care Reform, Reproductive Health, Abstinence Education, Title V, Health Care, Sex Education, Politics News
Reproductive Justice

By James Wagoner, President, Advocates for Youth Lost in the shuffle of analysis of the new health care reform legislation, is the fact that Democrat...

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'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 ...

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Condoms In Porn: California Considers New Safety Requirement

AP | SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Condoms, Porn, California, Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, Aids, Pornography, Porn Industry, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Hiv, Std, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES — California's worker safety board voted Thursday to further study a proposal that would require porn actors to wear condoms during ...

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Sexually Transmitted Infections Plague Kansas

The University Daily Kansan | Anna Archibald | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Safe Sex, The Midwest, University of Kansas, University of Kansas-Lawrence, Chlamydia, Kansas STD Rates, The University Daily Kansan, STD College Students, Kansas STI Rates, Sti, STI College Students, Sexual Health, Std, Birth Control, Herpes, Gonorrhea, College News

Alyssa sat nervously with her boyfriend in the waiting room. She had waited six months to get tested, and she was finally in the Lawrence Memorial Hos...

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STUDY: Sex-Ed Classes With Abstinence Focus Can Delay Sex In Teens

Washington Post | Rob Stein | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Abortion, Public Schools, Stds, Condom Use, Abstinence, Sexual Activity, Funding, Teenagers, Federal Funding, Education, Contraceptives, Std, Sex-Ed, Sex, Reproductive Health, Safe Sex, Teen Pregnancy, Abstinence Only, Teen Sex, University of Pennsylvania, Public Education, Condoms, Penn, Healthy Living News

Sex education classes that focus on encouraging children to remain abstinent can convince a significant proportion to delay sexual activity, researche...

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"My Vagina Fell Out": Woman Shares Health Horror

Sphere | Buck Wolf | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Birth, Vulva, Prolapse, Uterus, Pregnancy, Plastic Surgery, Hematoma, Cystocele, Child Birth, Health, Urethra, Reproductive Health, Women's Health, Rectum, Vaginal Prolapse, Stds, Std, Vagina, Placenta, Rectocele, Bladder, Labia Reduction, Healthy Living News

Allison Henry isn't the first to suffer from a horrifying medical condition that few women talk about. But her case was particularly bad, and she's ju...

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Fatalistic Teens Increase Risk of HIV Infection

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Youth, High Risk, Hiv Infections, Ankitha Bharadwaj, Hiv, Youthradio, HIV/AIDS, Infectious Diseases, AIDS Project, Virus, Oakland, Bay Area, Aids, Youth Radio, Std, Fatalistic, Kevin Bynes, Dr. Iris Borowsky, California, Aids Project East Bay, University of Minnesota, Healthy Living News
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

A study this summer reports 1 in 7 teenagers in the U.S. thinks he or she only has a 50-50 shot of making it past 35. What stands out are the consequences of low life-expectancy.

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