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STD Awareness: HPV Testing vs. the Pap Test
I love writing about health and medicine, but I hate going to the doctor. I don’t like taking my clothes off for a dermatological exam, I don’t like rolling my sleeve up for a shot, and I don’t like...
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STD Awareness: Can Older Adults Receive the HPV Vaccine?
When the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines were introduced, a lot of people were excited about protection from a sexually transmitted virus that could cause cancers, including cervical cancer, anal...
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From HPV to Cancer to Dry Mouth
Despite what a lot of people might think, oral sex is sex — not “third base,” not “everything but” — carrying with it the potential for both pleasure and disease transmission. That includes oral...
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STD Awareness: Winning One War on Cancer
Cancer starts with the uncontrolled division of cells. The developed world is in the midst of a huge nosedive in genital warts and cervical “precancer” — all thanks to the human papillomavirus (HPV)...
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STD Awareness: The Vaginal Microbiome and Cervical Cancer
Cervical cancer is caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), which has been nicknamed “the common cold of STDs” — because pretty much every sexually active person will get it at some point. Luckily, that...
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STD Awareness: How Do I Tell Someone I Have Herpes? Or HPV? Or HIV?
Image provided by Katie to Vice Of all the novel ways to jump-start a difficult conversation, presenting someone with a hand-drawn comic about herpes is among the most creative. A couple of weeks ago,...
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STD Awareness: Fighting Cervical Cancer Across the World
Tomorrow kicks off World Immunization Week, a reminder that, just as disease can cross borders, so should our efforts to prevent it. Especially when we have an effective vaccine for one of the world’s...
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STD Awareness: Eliminating HPV-Related Cancers
Earlier this month, every major cancer center and organization in the country released a joint statement calling for the elimination of cervical cancer, along with all other HPV-related cancers. The...
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