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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: Stigma and Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Stigma and disease have always gone hand in hand, with some diseases more stigmatized than others. Over the millennia, people living with diseases ranging from leprosy to AIDS have been burdened by...
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STD Awareness: Can the HPV Vaccine Prevent Head-and-Neck Cancer?
Photo: Heather Hazzan, Self Magazine The HPV vaccine Gardasil protects against human papillomavirus, a prolific virus that causes many types of cancer. In fact, although it was initially approved to...
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