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L.A. porn stars have more STDs than Nevada prostitutes
L.A. NOWRates of gonorrhea and chlamydia were significantly higher among porn stars in Los Angeles County compared to legal prostitutes in Nevada, according to a new study published this week.... -
L.A. city leaders weigh strategies for inspecting porn shoots
L.A. NOWFaced with a new law requiring condoms during porn shoots, Los Angeles officials have recommended that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the City Council begin searching for a medical professional to conduct inspections of adult film performances.... -
Porn industry syphilis cases in L.A. County under investigation
L.A. NOWThe L.A. County Public Health Department is investigating a possible cluster of syphilis cases among adult film industry performers, officials said Friday.... -
L.A. County voters offer mixed views on porn condom measure
L.A. NOWLos Angeles voters have been mixed on a state measure that would require pornographic movie performers to wear condoms during filming.... -
National HIV Testing Preview
Gayle Anderson was live at Hooper’s Shell Service Station for the beginning of a weeklong series of FREE HIV testing and STD screening clinics. Although NATIONAL HIV TESTING DAY is Wednesday, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU)...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Cancer, Petroleum Industry, Diabetes, Financial Aid
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Study: HPV vaccine doesn't encourage sexual activity
There's been a lot of controversy over the HPV vaccine. Because Gardasil is designed to protect young people against human papillomavirus, a common sexually transmitted disease, some people believe the inoculation gives teens the go-ahead to have sex....
Tags: Chemical Industry, Cancer, Throat Cancer, Preventative Medicine, Health Treatments
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FDA approves FIRST drug for the PREVENTION of sexually acquired HIV
On Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administrationannounced it had approved the drug combination of 300 mg tenofovir and 200 mg emtricitabine (TDF/FTC; brand name Truvada) for daily use by uninfected adults to help prevent the sexual acquisition of HIV. ...
Tags: Chemical Industry, Truvada, Diseases and Illnesses, Drugs and Medicines, HIV
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The HPV vaccine and teen sex
If you could vaccinate your kids against cancer, wouldn't you do it? The answer may sound obvious. But we can vaccinate our kids against some vicious types of cancer -- and many parents are deliberately choosing not to. Why? Because the cancers...
Tags: Cancer, Chemical Industry, Vaccines, Human papillomavirus, Disease Prevention
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Civility Efforts Seek Better Behavior On Campus
Associated PressJewish students in the University of California system labeled terrorists for their support of Israel. Black high school students pelted by bananas on a Tennessee campus tour. A hostile student in Maryland challenging his professor to a fight after the...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Gabrielle Giffords, Measles, Football, Trials
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Treating HIV and preventing it at the same time
Treatment drugs can do more than improve the health of people with HIV: If administered early, medications can also reduce the spread of the disease to sexual partners and may help stem the AIDS epidemic. But many logistical hurdles stand in the way of...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Epidemics and Plagues, Chemical Industry, AIDS, Diseases and Illnesses
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Larry Flynt, porn industry fighting proposed condom requirement
L.A. NOWLarry Flynt and others in the porn industry are fighting a ballot initiative that will appear before Los Angeles County voters requiring pornographic movie performers to wear condoms during filming.... -
Pennsylvania company is in the early stages of a cervical cancer vaccine
CNNThe most common sexually transmitted disease is often silent and invisible: human papillomavirus (also called HPV). But in some people HPV leads to genital warts and cancers -- notably, cervical cancer. The vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix were designed as...Tags: Chemical Industry, Cancer, Skin Lesion, Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer
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