Topic: STIs

Staying Positive When Positive: Websites For Dating With STDs Increasing Membership

Nervous about dating with STDs? If you’re presently unsure of how to proceed with your love life, check out some of these sites. More »

Start Preparing For STD Doomsday

Dang. While we were all busy worrying about the Singularity,* super sexually transmitted diseases have been quietly plotting to beat computers and robots to rising up against humankind. And I, for one, do not welcome our gonorrhea overlords. More »

Porn Industry Syphilis Scare A Good Opportunity To Talk About This STI

With all the hot new sexually transmitted infections we have these days — HPV! Hepatitis B! — it’s easy to forget that syphilis still exists. But still exist it does, and apparently it’s plaguing the Los Angeles porn industry right now. More »

Gonorrhea Superbugs Are Coming; To Fight Them You Need To Use Condoms

Scary news in Sexually Transmitted Infection-land: Gonorrhea is becoming drug-resistant, meaning it might not have a cure in the near future. And it could be coming for you! But thankfully, you can win this war: With a weapon called “condoms,” which happen to be cheap, readily available, and conveniently, a really good way to combat other STIs, too. More »

Dutch Researchers Recommend HPV Test For All Women Over 30; So Should OB/GYNs

Dutch researchers are recommending that HPV tests for all women over 30, after finding that they’re more effective in detecting HPV and preventing cervical cancer than a Pap smear on its own. Overall, that’s great news for us ladies: Improved detection = improved health. But it also makes me wonder: If Dutch researchers have been studying this for five years, on 45,000 women, why aren’t our OB/GYNs telling us this stuff, too? More »

Sex (Re)Ed: A Brief Refresher On STIs

Earlier today, Elizabeth wrote about a few non-normal ‘nether region symptoms that could be caused by something other than an STI, which was a good reminder that just because it itches, it doesn’t mean it’s automatically an infection of the intimate variety. But that doesn’t mean that when something fishy is going on downstairs, you should ignore it–because it could be something serious. More »

Get an Earful: Daily Health Quiz

It’s summer, but school is still cool. And our Daily Health Quiz will test your know-how. Answer our question, below, and check back tomorrow for the answer and your next pop quiz. Today’s Question: Earwax can be a pesky, pesky … More »

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