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Health Risks of Noncoital Sexual Activity Washington, DC — When counseling patients about preventing sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), it’s important for physicians to ask direct questions about both intercourse and noncoital sexual activity, according to a new Committee Opinion issued today by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). Noncoital sexual behavior includes mutual [...]

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Centers for Disease Control Gardasil reporting, here A Homeopathic Perspective, here Gardasil Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine On June 8, 2006, the FDA licensed Gardasil®, the first vaccine developed to prevent cervical cancer caused by certain kinds of human papillomavirus (HPV). Since then, more than 12 million doses of Gardasil vaccine have been distributed. In 2006, [...]

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The info posted below is from this young lady’s blog. In an attempt to pass the word about what she is currently dealing with. Visit her blog (here), medical professionals should check it out also and of course teens, young women and their mothers. Her blog has additional information on other cases in where Gardasil [...]

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Viruses are not the cause per se of cervical cancer. There has to be exposure to the virus and their has to a susceptibility to it. Their are many factors involved and by changing those inputs (behavior, diet,nutrition, life focus, spiritual focus of an individual, teaching wise choices vs. risky behaviors, etc.) outcomes can be [...]

Tags: adolescent health, sexual behavior, sexual disease

“What we found is alarming,” Dr. Sara Forhan, from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a teleconference Tuesday. “One in four female adolescents in the U.S. has at least one of the four most common STDs that affects women.””These numbers translate into 3.2 million young women nationwide who are infected with [...]

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Information to share, not out of fear, but to encourage judiciousness. By Will Boggs, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women run a significant risk of acquiring human papillomavirus (HPV) from their very first sex partner, according to a new report. Human papillomavirus or HPV is the cause of genital warts, as well as most [...]