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Sexually transmitted infections (STI), also referred to as sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and venereal diseases (VD), are illnesses that have a significant probability of transmission between humans by means of human sexual behavior, including vaginal intercourse, oral sex, and anal sex.
Read More at Wikipedia ›The Morehouse School of Medicine is creating what is being called the first endowed chair on sexuality and religion at a U.
S. medical school.The Atlanta medical school on Thursday announced it raised $2 million for the endowed chair, and it will begin a one-year national search to hire someone to fill it.The chairperson will develop ways to train physicians and theologians on a wide range of sexual health issues that include contraception, rape prevention, unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.The chair will report to Dr. David Satcher, a former U.S. Surgeon General who issued a controversial report on sexual health in 2001. Satcher is now a Morehouse administrator.A spokeswoman for the Association of American Medical Colleges said she was not aware of a similar endowed chair anywhere else.Satcher and others at Morehouse previously coordinated national panel discussions on sexual health that involved organizations ranging from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to...NEW YORK -- You can "check in" to restaurants and bars, so how about health clinics while you get tested for sexually transmitted diseases ?Foursquare, the phone app...
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As fewer boys today are getting circumcised than in the past, a new study adds support to the procedure. The study, published Monday in the journal Cancer , a journ...
The U.S. government said it will begin removing products from the market that make unproven claims to treat, cure, or prevent sexually transmitted diseases .The U.S....
Condoms are now required on Los Angeles porn sets.Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed an ordinance in January requiring that actors in adult movies in the city must us...
The Springfield School Committee has given first-step approval to a policy that would make condoms available to students as young as 12.The committee voted 5-1 Thurs...
Actors in many of the adult films made in the nation's porn capital must use condoms under a law that took effect Monday, but the prophylactic police aren't yet on t...
Advocates for sex workers want New York to become the first state to ban police officers from confiscating condoms as evidence in prostitution cases, saying it has a...
Despite recommendations that pregnant women have tests for certain sexually transmitted diseases, many may not be getting them, a new study suggests.Researchers foun...
Scientists have released evidence of a new gonorrhea "superbug" -- one resistant to all forms of antibiotics that are currently available for treatment. Although man...
The U.S. government apologized Friday for a secret program conducted more than 40 years ago in which prisoners and mental hospital patients in Guatemala were intenti...
Can the social network help prevent social diseases?A University of North Carolina researcher thinks online social networks like Facebook have tremendous potential f...
Capitol Hill interns might miss out this summer on a famed lecture from Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn on the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases -- all because of a ...
Researchers warned gonorrhea is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, which raises the risk of an untreatable strain of the sexually transmitted disease em...
In the trees and grasses of the South, there are a growing number of unwanted visitors that at best are an itchy nuisance and at worst can carry debilitating disease...
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