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191. Herpes Often Unknowingly Spread
     

     Oct. 30, 2008 (Washington D.C.) -- Young women who don't know they have the virus that causes genital herpes could be unknowingly fueling the herpes epidemic, new research suggests. Although they have no symptoms of the disease and have not been tested, many women are actively shedding the virus in

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192. Earlier HIV Treatment Boosts Survival
     

     Oct. 27, 2008 (Washington, D.C.) -- Hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved if treatment for HIV-infected patients were started earlier than current guidelines suggest, researchers report. The guidelines now call for initiating antiviral therapy in any person who develops symptoms of AIDS or w

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193. Douching Increases STD Risk
     

     Oct. 27, 2008 (Washington, D.C.) -- Don't douche. That's the message from researchers who found that teens who report douching regularly are significantly more likely to subsequently develop a sexually transmitted disease (STD) than those who say they never douche. "Vaginal douching is not a healthy

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194. Gardasil Passes a 2-Year Safety Check
     

     Oct. 22, 2008 -- Two years after Gardasil's approval, safety monitors detect no major safety problems with the HPV vaccine. Gardasil protects against infection with dangerous strains of HPV, the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer and genital warts. The CDC recommends that girls g

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195. Actress Gloria Reuben: AIDS Activist
     

     Gloria Reuben first started grappling with HIV issues as part of her role on ER, as physician assistant Jeanie Boulet, one of the first openly HIV-positive characters on prime-time TV. But soon, the scripts began to take over her off-duty thoughts. “It follows you around wherever you go,” says Reube

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196. E-Cards Notify Sex Partners About STDs
     

     Oct. 20, 2008 -- It has never been so important to check your inbox. Four years after the launch of inSPOT.org, which allows people with sexually transmitted diseases to notify sexual partners via email, nearly 50,000 e-cards have been sent, according to an article published in PLoS Medicine. The si

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197. Can Circumcision Cut HIV in Gay Men?
     

     Oct. 7, 2008 -- Circumcision offers little HIV protection to gay/bisexual men -- overall. But it might cut HIV risk in predominantly insertive partners. It's now clear that circumcision reduces heterosexual men's risk of getting HIV from sexual intercourse. Can circumcision reduce HIV infection rate

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198. More Americans Living With HIV
     

     Oct. 2, 2008 -- The CDC says 1.1 million Americans were living with HIV in 2006, up 11% from 2003. The new estimates are relatively good news. Thanks to better treatment, people with HIV are living longer than ever before. More people with HIV means more people who can spread the AIDS virus, yet new

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199. Half a Billion Have Genital Herpes Virus
     

     Oct. 1, 2008 -- More than half a billion people are infected with the herpes simplex virus type 2, the virus that causes most cases of genital herpes, and nearly 24 million new cases happen per year. That's according to the first global estimate of the prevalence (total number of cases) and incidenc

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200. Virus Hunters Track Early HIV
     

     Oct. 1, 2008 -- It's like finding a piece of the past. Researchers looking into the virus that causes AIDS have found HIV in a 1960 tissue sample of an infected woman from what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo). Researchers, led by Michael Worobey, PhD, at the University of Arizona,

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