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Gilead Sciences Works To Offer Pricy PrEP Pill; Patient Advocacy Groups Are Not Happy

Gilead Sciences is working toward offering a new expensive pill that can prevent people from contracting HIV, but its patient advocates that are thwarting the manufacturer’s plan.

Mark Riegel, MD

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Central Illinois Friends Works to Lower STD Rates Among High School Students

Central Illinois Friends Works to Lower STD Rates Among High School Students

A local Illinois organization is trying to lower the barriers about sexually transmitted diseases testing and get teenagers talking about them.

Mark Riegel, MD

UoT Researchers Possibly Find New HIV Medication Using The Body Itself

UoT Researchers Possibly Find New HIV Medication Using The Body Itself

University of Texas Medical Branch researchers may have found a new medication that will work with an infected individual’s own body to suppress the virus even more than current HIV treatments have not been able to fight.

Mark Riegel, MD

Disclosure of HIV Status

Disclosure of HIV Status

Whenever you are HIV positive and you decide to tell someone that you have HIV, then you are disclosing your status.

Mark Riegel, MD

Companies Come Up With Diagnostic Tool To Detect Mycoplasma Genitalium Bacteria

Companies Come Up With Diagnostic Tool To Detect Mycoplasma Genitalium Bacteria

Mycoplasma genitalium is one of the least known sexually transmitted diseases in the world, but this minute bacteria is thought to be even more widespread than the gonorrhea bug.

Mark Riegel, MD

WebMD Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Illegal FDA Approval Of STD Kits

WebMD Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Illegal FDA Approval Of STD Kits

A lawsuit has been filed by a nonprofit “industry watchdog” against WebMD’s consumer STD lab tests for allegedly misrepresenting its tests as being FDA approved.

Mark Riegel, MD

5 Well-Recognized Companies Have Developed Commonly Used STD Medications

5 Well-Recognized Companies Have Developed Commonly Used STD Medications

Governments throughout the world have implemented programs and initiatives to raise STD awareness and offer funding for new drugs to treat the multitude of sexually transmitted diseases being spread.

Mark Riegel, MD

HIV & Getting Pregnant

HIV & Getting Pregnant

If you are interested in having children and you happen to be HIV positive or if you are someone who is HIV negative but want to have children with someone who is HIV positive, then know you are not the only one.

Mark Riegel, MD

How To Eliminate The Stigma Associated With STDs and STIs

How To Eliminate The Stigma Associated With STDs and STIs

It’s never easy to give patients bad news, but it’s even worse when that bad news happens to be about a sexually transmitted disease or infection (STD or STI).

Mark Riegel, MD

myLab Uber Box Takes Out The Unease and Inconvenience Out Of STD Testing

myLab Uber Box Takes Out The Unease and Inconvenience Out Of STD Testing

There is nothing to laugh about when it comes to sexually transmitted diseases.

Mark Riegel, MD

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