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Women and Men Differ, and It’s Affecting HIV Clinical Trials, Treatments and Cures

Scientists are constantly looking for ways to cure HIV – the virus known to cause AIDS – on the heels of reports that another person has been cured of the disease. However, researchers must address the real issue thwarting their attempts – the lack of women in clinical trials for cures, treatments and vaccines.

Mark Riegel, MD

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Philadelphia Health Officials Attempt To Stem Rise In HIV Cases With PrEP Drug

Philadelphia Health Officials Attempt To Stem Rise In HIV Cases With PrEP Drug

Philadelphia’s health department has seen an increasing number of IV drug users also infected with HIV, which has resulted in the training of medical providers to give the PrEP (a pill that is designed to prevent the transmission of HIV) to opioid users.

Mark Riegel, MD

Study Finds Some Patients Getting Gonorrhea From Kissing Only

Study Finds Some Patients Getting Gonorrhea From Kissing Only

A new study has debunked the theory that you can’t get an STD from kissing. Researchers have found that the gonorrhea strain is transmittable through kissing.

Mark Riegel, MD

NIH Provides Funding For STD Vaccine Development To Multiple Entities

NIH Provides Funding For STD Vaccine Development To Multiple Entities

UNC researchers have been working with colleagues throughout the world to develop a chlamydia vaccine along with several other STD vaccines.

Mark Riegel, MD

Mobile Care Unit Brings STD Testing Out To Public

Mobile Care Unit Brings STD Testing Out To Public

Novus ACS is finalizing the launch of it a mobile care unit that ensures everybody can have access to free HIV and STD testing.

Mark Riegel, MD

Are California Summer Music Festivals Leading To Rise In Herpes Cases

Are California Summer Music Festivals Leading To Rise In Herpes Cases

Many summer music festival goers are finding out that their summer fun is leading to STDs. HerpAlert noted that locations around the Indio, California Stagecoach Music Festival saw a ride in herpes inquiries and prescriptions.

Mark Riegel, MD

Nashua Officials Hold Valentine’s Day Event Screening For STDs

Nashua Officials Hold Valentine’s Day Event Screening For STDs

Nashua Division of Public Health and Community Service offered free STD testing Valentine’s Day to ensure residents enjoyed a disease-free holiday with its “Give Your Valentine Anything But Love” event.

Mark Riegel, MD

STDs Making Unacceptable Comeback

STDs Making Unacceptable Comeback

Most people love to hear a good comeback story, but they don’t want to hear about an STD comeback. However, this is what the people in the U.S. are facing – a swift and steep comeback of sexually transmitted diseases such as gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia.

Mark Riegel, MD

Abstinence-Only Does Not Work; Vaccinations and Sex Talks Imperative To Protect Teens

Abstinence-Only Does Not Work; Vaccinations and Sex Talks Imperative To Protect Teens

With so much information and treatment for STDs available, one would assume that they’d be wiped out, but that doesn’t appear to be the case.

Mark Riegel, MD

FDA Has Approved Gardasil Use For Adults Up To 45-Years-Old

FDA Has Approved Gardasil Use For Adults Up To 45-Years-Old

Up until now, the drug Gardasil was only approved for teenagers and young adults. However, the FDA recently changed that with its approval of Gardasil 9, a supplemental application that allows individuals – men and women between 27 and 45 years of age – to get the drug.

Mark Riegel, MD

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