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Warning Signs Of Venereal Disease

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incurable venereal disease?

Hi, Dr.Kull. I have 2 questions today. I had looked at a leaflet telling that there are known 25 sorts of venereal disease in this world now and 4 of them are incurable. However it doesn't say what they are. Could you possibly tell me what...
Ryan M. Kull, C.S.W

Response from Ryan M. Kull, C.S.W

Columbia University's Health & Related Services
I've never counted, and it would take too much time for me to describe all STIs here, so why don't you peruse some information we have here at The Body to learn more about <a... Read more »

Does gay men facesitting transmit venereal disease (FACESITTING)

Dear doc, Last night I let a man prostitute sit on my face and smother me with his bare ass. Is... Read more »

Veneral infection by kissing

Hi, thenks in advanced. Im very worried because I have a pregnant wife. I went 2 days ago to a... Read more »
Articles
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Australia: Venereal Disease on the Rise Via Unsafe Gay Oral Sex

Recent dramatic increases in gonorrhea and syphilis infections among men -- rates not seen since the early 1980s -- indicate gay Australians are unaware of the STD risks of oral sex, sexual health experts say. There were 405 gonorrhea cases in the... Read more »
Mind/Body Medical Institute

Stress Warning Signs

Contact Info To register for stress management programs and services, contact Rana Chudnofsky at 617.643.6068 or rchudnofsky@partners.org . It is easy for stress to accumulate as we make our way through hectic days, throwing us into a... Read more »
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Warning of Gonorrhea Drugs Risk

Gonorrhea's growing resistance to antibiotics could make treating the STD become much more complex, according to information presented this week at the Society for General Microbiology's spring meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland. "If this problem isn't... Read more »
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Childhood HIV Risks Becoming Neglected Disease as Fewer Children Born With HIV, Experts Warn

"The success in reducing the number of children born with HIV is in danger of leaving children who already have the disease with poor access to treatment, experts in HIV and AIDS have warned," BMJ reports. "Denis Broun, executive director of... Read more »
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The reason not to use a PCR (WARNING)

Posted by Anonymous, 5 Replies
There is a reason not to use a pcr rna for testing.
I had an oral exposure insertive and receptive with very little cum and caugt an std. I had almost none of the classic symptoms except thrush and swollen lymph nodes and within the first 2 weeks by... Read more »

Warning to gay men

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply
"Methamphetamine (MA) has immunosuppressive properties."

Yu QL; Larson DF; Watson RR. Heart disease, methamphetamine and AIDS. Life Sciences 73(2): 129-140, 2003. (80 refs.)

Methamphetamine (MA) not only affects the nervous system but also has cardiac... Read more »

U.S. Issues Warning on Use of Anti-AIDS Drug

Posted by Anonymous
Reuters 1/4/01

Atlanta -- Health-care workers who take nevirapine after possible occupational exposure to the AIDS virus risk potentially life-threatening side effects from the anti-AIDS drug, federal health officials said on Thursday.

The Centers for... Read more »

Is it a bad sign?

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply
Is it a bad sign if a person takes longer than 3 months to develop antibodies to HIV? Does this mean that their disease will progress faster because their bodies were slower to create an antibody defence? Read more »

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