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Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 12:50pm By Margaret WadeAmong those who shared comments with me about body fluids and spirituality since my last column, they spoke more of issues that are central to daily life than about sacred sex practices or rituals. Sharing body fluids can mean sharing disease or...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009 - 11:19am By MidoriI have genital and oral herpes—and I swear it saved my life. It sounds weird, I know, but it's true. I contracted herpes as an undergrad at Berkeley in the mid 80s. My boyfriend had a cold sore on his lips after the first sunny day of skiing....
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Friday, October 2, 2009 - 11:36am By Tim McElreavyHas anyone ever told you how beautiful your HIV is? Have you ever wanted to cuddle up with herpes? Sexually transmitted diseases are never pleasant, causing great anxiety and social stigma in addition to their physical symptoms. It should come as no...
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Sunday, August 2, 2009 - 2:52pm By John PettittNew research helps explain why even an apparently healed Herpes (HSV-2) sore increases the risk of HIV infection. In a study funded by the National Institutes of Health, scientists have discovered that an immune-cell environment conducive to HIV...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 12:49pm By Liz HighleymanYou've got the basic concept down: condoms can protect you from some sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) but not others. Condoms offer good protection against diseases—like HIV, gonorrhea, and chlamydia—that actually travel in semen (...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009 - 11:52am By Tim McElreavyThe Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reports that Nick Clayton Rhoades, 34, of Plainfield, Iowa, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for failing to disclose that he was HIV positive before having sex with another man in June, 2008. The sentence is...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 10:51am By Tim McElreavyA study published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that circumcision significantly reduces the risk of contracting herpes and human papillomavirus (HPV). Researchers performed circumcisions on 1,684 African men and tracked their health...
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Monday, February 23, 2009 - 11:00am By Perv PanelMy husband and I are in our mid-forties and have been non-monogamous for over ten years. Last month, he was diagnosed with genital herpes, and we don't know what to do. We've both had many partners, both long term and casual, but (almost) always use...
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Friday, February 20, 2009 - 12:24pm By Miss KittyAh, herpes, the gift that can keep on giving. As you may know, herpes is quite common—the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that by age 50, 90% of the population has oral herpes (cold sores, HSV-1) while 25% has genital herpes (HSV-2...
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Friday, February 20, 2009 - 12:16pm By Miss Maggie MayhemA herpes diagnosis seems to carry a heavy weight for a lot of people, and I certainly wasn’t thrilled when I got mine. My doctor informed me that it was possible I had been infected a long time ago with the virus remaining dormant until my...
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Friday, February 20, 2009 - 12:11pm By SteveWhy are you asking? Seriously, you can get the medical facts from the CDC website, so what is it you want to know? Up to 90% of the people who have it don’t know it (and don’t have symptoms). Seventy percent of the people who got it did...
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