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The Adult Film Saga Continues 26 Aug 2013 | 02:47 pm
Last week's court decision upholding the law requiring condom use for adult film actors was particularly timely. A few days after the decision was handed down, an adult film actress was diagnosed with...
Standing Firm 23 Aug 2013 | 02:39 pm
Last week a U.S. District Court judge ruled that requiring condoms to be used in porn is constitutional. The law he was ruling on is the one that was passed in Los Angeles County last year, and it has...
Figuring Out Where to Intervene 21 Aug 2013 | 02:51 pm
A study recently published in the American Journal of Public Health suggests that STD infections during adolescence may increase HIV risk through young adulthood. This isn't particularly surprising, f...
Back it Up 19 Aug 2013 | 02:31 pm
Not that anyone really questions the importance of practicing safe anal sex, even when they can't always manage it, but an article recently published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases should...
More Common, Because it's Harder to Treat 16 Aug 2013 | 02:39 pm
A study recently presented at the STI World Congress 2013 in Vienna links growing problems with antibiotic resistance to the increasing number of gonorrhea infections that were reported in the United ...
Updated PEP Guidelines 14 Aug 2013 | 02:22 pm
Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is a technique that is used to reduce the risk of HIV infection after health-care workers and others in risky professions are accidentally exposed to HIV-infected, or p...
The Emotional Struggle with HIV Testing 12 Aug 2013 | 02:48 pm
While trying to come up with a topic to blog about today, I stumbled across two interesting articles that speak to the importance of not just STD testing but talking about it in an informed and intell...
Falling Softly 9 Aug 2013 | 02:48 pm
According to a recent report from the CDC, vaccination rates for HPV leveled out in 2012. Furthermore, the number of girls completing the three does series required for the vaccine to be most effectiv...
Another HPV Cancer Link 7 Aug 2013 | 02:20 pm
HPV infections have been associated with an increased risk for developing a number of cancers. After the discovery of its causal relationship to cervical cancer, researchers began investigating whethe...
A Scary New Phrase 5 Aug 2013 | 02:51 pm
I was catching up on my scientific reading over the weekend, when I came upon a new phrase - "extensively-drug resistant (XDR) gonorrhea." This, unsurprisingly, refers to the kind of antibiotic-resist...
