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"My Vagina Fell Out": Woman Shares Health Horror

Sphere | Buck Wolf | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living

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, 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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The Gardasil Vaccine -- Introduction to a Series

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Glaxosmithkline, HPV Vaccine, Stds, Elisabeth Rosenthal, Living News, Merck, Genital Warts, Harvard School of Public Health, Pap Test, Gardasil Vaccine, Teenage Sexuality, Fda, Center for American Progress, Ceravix, Human Papillomavirus, Girls's Health, Women's Health, Dissident Voice, Ins, New England Journal of Medicine, Health News, Cervical Cancer, Lucinda Marshall, Healthcare, Living News
Marcia G. Yerman

As the nation's attention is riveted on the discourse about health care reform, another debate is taking place around the Gardasil vaccine.

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Circumcision For Boys, Men?: Health Officials Weigh Recommendation To Fight HIV Risk

The New York Times | Roni Caryn Rabin | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Stds, Cdc, Sexual Health, Aids, HIV Prevention, Hiv, Male Circumcision, Circumcision, HIV/AIDS Africa, AIDS Prevention, Living News

Public health officials are considering promoting routine circumcision for all baby boys born in the United States to reduce the spread of H.I.V., the...

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So, Your Child Is Going Off to College... Drinking, Drugs, Depression and Dealing With Colleges and Universities

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 09.13.2009 | Living

Read More: College Students, Stds, Hipaa, Resident Hall Advisors, Drug Problems Youth, Health Services, College and Parents, Ras, Parenting, Virginia Tech, University, College, Studnent Mental Health, Sexual Exploration, Dormitory, Adhd, Ferpa, Addiction & Recovery, Living News
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD

Mental illnesses, including alcohol and drug abuse, are the conditions that arise and may affect your child as he takes on the developmental steps of leaving home to go off to school.

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Why My Daughter Is Getting The HPV Vaccine

Rebecca Booth, MD | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Stds, Genital Warts, Eva Peron, Anal Cancer, Cervical Cancer, Human-Papilloma-Virus, Hpv, Farrah Fawcett, Sexual Assault, Gardasil, Vaccines, Health, Living News
Rebecca Booth, MD

Could anyone forget the beautiful music of Evita, or even more compelling the black and white photos of Eva Peron, her cheeks becoming more and more h...

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Take Action Against AIDS Today

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 06.27.2009 | Living

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Stds, National HIV Testing Day, HIV Prevention, HIV Test, Aids, Hiv, AIDS Testing, Living News
Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

On National HIV Testing Day, we are reminded that 1.1 million Americans are living with HIV in the United States, yet one in five of them do not know their status.

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CPS To Offer STD Testing As Gonorrhea, Chlamydia Cases Rise

Chi-Town Daily News | Alex Parker | Posted 07.27.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Chicago Public Schools, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Chicago School Health, Cps Stds, Stds, Health, Chicago News

Responding to high levels of sexually-transmitted infections in Chicago high schools, the city Board of Education yesterday voted to increase STD test...

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Are Teens Heading in the Wrong Direction?

Cory Silverberg | Posted 07.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Teen Pregnancy, Stds, Sex Education, Living News
Cory Silverberg

I definitely agree teen contraceptive use is headed in the wrong direction. But conflating "teens" as individuals with "teen contraceptive use" is kind of emblematic of the problem with so much sex education.

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Gay and Lesbian Manners: The Great Oral Sex Dilemma

Steven Petrow | Posted 11.03.2009 | Style

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Stds, Sex, Safe Sex, Aids, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Etiquette, Gay, Gays, Condoms, Manners, Style News
Steven Petrow

Even if you feel embarrassed talking about sex (especially with someone new), discuss your preferences beforehand.

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LA County To Distrubute Free Mail-In STD Tests

AP | SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER | Posted 07.13.2009 | Living

Read More: La, Sexual Health, Stds, Los Angeles STDs, Los Angeles, Personal Health, Sex, Health, Living News

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles county health officials are offering a free, at-home program to test for sexually transmitted diseases. All women in ...

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God and Abstinence

Reproductive Justice | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Teen Sex Education, Stds, Sexual Health, Abstinence Only, Sti, Abstinence Education, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Teen Sex, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Politics News
Reproductive Justice

At the Mississippi Department of Human Services' summit, "Abstinence Works: Let's Talk About It," we didn't talk about abstinence, but we sure did chant, cheer, dance, pray and sing about it.

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Black Women and the AIDS Crisis

Martha St Jean | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

Read More: Black Women, Stds, Cdc, Dr. Kevin Fenton, Act Against Aids, AIDs Epidemic, Teen Girls Stds, Washington DC, African American Women, Phill Wilson, HIV/AIDS, Sti, Aids, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Washington Post, Black AIDS Institute, African Americans, African-American Issues, Bailout Bandits, World News
Martha St Jean

According to Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS at the CDC, one in 30 black women will be diagnosed with HIV at some point in her lifetime. That is unacceptable.

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Condom Credit Cards To Be Given To British Teens

BBC | Posted 03.30.2009 | World

Read More: Stds, Teen Sex Education, Teen Stds, Sex Awareness, England, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Teen Sex, Europe, Condoms, Condom Credit Cards, Sex Education, Sex, World News

Teenagers in a Berkshire town will soon get access to a card which they can use to get free condoms if they go for regular sex advice sessions. The C...

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Ryan Grim

STD Money, Recovery.gov, The Patriot Act: HuffPost Readers Dig Through The Stimulus

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stds, Patriot Act in Stimulus, Stimulus Bill, Stds in Stimulus, Assignment Desk, recovery.gov, Economic Stimulus Package, Politics News

More money to battle STDs. Recovery.gov stripped out. A nod to the Patriot Act. Huffington Post readers have taken a preliminary look at the Senate st...

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Dems Drop Anti-Smoking, STD Prevention From Stimulus

CNN | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stds, Obama Senate Democrats, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, Obama Anti-Smoking, Obama Stimulus, Stimulus Package, Economic Stimulus, Senate Democrats, Stimulus, Politics News

Senate Democrats have dropped two controversial spending programs in the Senate economic stimulus bill: $75 million dollars for anti-smoking programs,...

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Feeling Normal?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 03.02.2009 | Style

Read More: The 1970s, Stds, Normalcy, Queens, Gypsy, Joan of Arc, Arthur Rimbaud, Teenage Girls, Dostoyevsky, Gypsies, Allen Ginsberg, New York City, Religion, James Joyce, Iconoclasts, High School, Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Penicillin, Reading, 1970s, Teenagers, Style News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

I grew up in a place, Bayside, New York; a place where, when I mentioned Nietzsche, the woman who lived above me asked, "if you take Penicillin, will it cure that?"

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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Are On The Rise

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 02.13.2009 | Style

Read More: Rise in STDS, Stds, Health, Rise in Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Diseases, Sexual Transmitted Disease, Sexually Transmitted Diseases Are on the Rise, Style News

ATLANTA — Sexually spread diseases _ for years on the decline _ are on the rise, with reported chlamydia cases setting a record, government heal...

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Sex: Why We HATE Talking About It To Our Kids

Dr. Meg Meeker | Posted 01.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Stds, Talking to Kids About Sex, Teen Stds, Teens and Sex, Adolescents and Sex, Rand Corporation, Health, Sex on Television, Living News
Dr. Meg Meeker

by Meg Meeker, MD It cost the Rand Corporation millions of dollars to discover this: Teens who watch too much sex on TV have too much sex and get pre...

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E-Cards For STDs Now Wildly Popular

CNN | Madison Park | Posted 11.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Stds, Sex, E-Cards, Email, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Stis, The Way We Live Now, Living News

Breaking up over e-mail is a social no-no. But sending an e-card telling someone to get tested for STDs may be a public health courtesy. A California...

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Doctors To Start Vaccinating Boys For Virus That Causes Cervical Cancer (VIDEO)

CBS News | Posted 07.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Hpv, Cervical Cancer, Stds, Video, Health, Gardasil, Gardisil, HPV Vaccination for Boys, Gardasil for Boys, Living News

Doctors will soon vaccinate young boys with Gardasil, a vaccine traditionally administered only to girls, in the hopes of limiting HPV cases among wom...

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