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Panel: HPV Vaccine for Young Girls

It is recommended that girls as young as 11 routinely get a new vaccine against cervical cancer, which prevents infection with human papillomavirus (HPV)

How to Take Norethisterone

Oral contraceptives are pills that help prevent pregnancy and can delay the onset of a woman's period. A period is a naturally occurring event that happens each month and is proof that a woman is able to bear children. Norethisterone is a form of the hormone progestin, which will help prevent pregna

What Are the Dangers of Stopping Advair Use?

Stopping medications sometimes causes problems. Advair is a medication that combines two drugs: a steroid to reduce inflammation in your lungs and a bronchodilator that lets more air into the lungs. It is used primarily for patients with asthma but has been approved for use with chronic obstructive

Herbal Treatment For Genital Herpes - Works Like a Charm

Genital herpes is a sexually transmitted disease that currently still has no known cure. However, its symptoms can be controlled and as long outbreaks are avoided, a person with herpes can lead a normal and healthy life. There are many individuals with herpes who live just like any person on the pla

Prostate Ultrasound and Biopsy

Learn more from WebMD about the use of ultrasound and the performance of a biopsy to evaluate prostate cancer.

Gene Silencing May Stop AIDS Virus

A new gene silencing technique stops HIV cold in mouse studies and promises to become a potent new AIDS therapy with few side effects.

Reversing a Tubal Ligation

A tubal ligation is a procedure done to make a woman sterile. With a tubal ligation, a woman's fallopian tubes are tied or blocked to prevent her eggs from being fertilized. A section of each tube is tied off and removed, leaving each tube severed into two sections. Sometimes women who have had this

Why Would You Need a MRI for Prostate Cancer?

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests are very useful in many ways when dealing with prostate cancer. They can help predict the likelihood of prostate cancer spreading or returning for patients who are about to undergo radiation therapy.

No-Carb Diet May Curb Prostate Cancer

In lab tests, prostate tumors grew slower in mice on no-carb or low-fat diets than in mice on a Western diet, a prostate cancer study shows.

4 Ways of Preventing HIV and AIDS

A report by Bloomberg stated that almost half the people in Singapore did not know that condoms can prevent HIV infection. Since the end of 2013, there were 6,229 reported cases of HIV infected Singapore residents, of which 1,671 have died. A clear understanding of how HIV is contracted is the best

Bill Gates's $100,000 Condom Challenge

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is offering a $100,000 grant to the person who can develop what's being called the next generation of condom.

Herb May Be Alternative Herpes Treatment

An experimental new herpes treatment derived from an herb known as Prunella vulgaris may one day help prevent and treat both types of the herpes virus that cause cold sores and genital herpes.

How to Cure Genital Warts on Men

You have been diagnosed with genital warts and like the two millions new people each year that are told they have been infected, you are looking for info on "how to cure genital warts." Genital warts is also known as Condyloma, Condylomata acuminata, venereal warts, anal warts or anogenita

'50s Sexuality Research Still Causing a Stir

The new movie on controversial sex researcher Alfred Kinsey has sex experts and protesters talking about what he did for human sexuality -- and morality -- in the U.S.

Prostate Cancer Risks

Prostate cancer is a common disease in older men. Some risk factors cannot be changed, but it appears that certain lifestyle changes can lower the risk of prostate cancer. Because age is a significant risk factor, men of a certain age should be screened for the disease.