Row over cervical cancer vaccine for girls

Penny pinching around important health issues like this can't be a good thing. If it's worth doing do it well. The task now, which ever vaccine is used, is to get the capaign right so that as many young girls take up the offer of the vaccine, which is best done before they...

Herpes Outbreak Shuts Down Catholic High School

The prep school was closed after a wrestler with lesions on his skin was diagnosed with the virus type 1, a form of the virus that has nothing to do with the sexually transmitted type.  "Five members of the high school’s wrestling team were diagnosed with herpes...

Male fertility at risk from chlamydia

"The most common sexually transmitted disease in Britain may harm men's fertility by causing genetic damage to their sperm, research has shown. Chlamydia is widely known to damage women's fertility by causing...

The Truth About Toilet Seats

This is about the diseases that lurk in public restrooms.

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