All Blog Posts Tagged 'hpv' (5)

Time to watch your TV for more HPV (Genital human papillomavirus) commercials, Gardasil now has competition! As of this Friday, GlaxoSmithKline's Cevarix vacci… Continue

I've just started a discussion on this topic in the Sexual Health Group, and would love to know what people think about men getting the HPV vaccine. I hope you'll take a few minutes to review the article and share your thoughts: http://community.wegohealth.com/group/sexualhealth/forum/topics/will-men-actually-get-the-hpv Continue

All over the country and around the world STDs have been on the rise, but why? People believe that it's the parents fault, or the Government for not providing proper sex education in schools, or even the music and media of this time of age but really it's everyones fault including all the people that don't bother to get tested and spread the diseases around unknowingly. One of the main issues is people don't realize that there infected with a sexually transmitted disease in the first place beca… Continue

For a little over two years now, we've been hearing about the Gardasil vaccination - said to prevent the rare forms of cancer caused by the human papillomavirus. For those two years, we’ve also been hearing “this vaccination saves lives!” and then “this vaccination is unneeded.” Two more New England Journal of Medicine articles take the side of the latter opinion; the Gardasil… Continue

No, really. Someone actually designated April as National STD Education and Awareness Month, and it's probably not a bad thing, considering one in four teenage girls has an STD. This video explains more. Although only a small number of girls were included in the study, not all STDs were tested for, suggesting that the actual percentage of teenage girls with an STD might be higher. In addition, some girls were… Continue