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New data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control show that new cases of hepatitis C have remained stable since dropping dramatically during the early 1990s.During the mid-1980s, about 70 of every one million Americans developed acute hepatitis C each year, the CDC said.  However, that rate was 90 percent lower, or only 7 per million per year, between 1994 and 2006.Intravenous drug users accounted for a growing proportion of hepatitis C cases over the years, and their risk of infection...

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Female Health Company (FHC) (Nasdaq: FHCO) is supporting the launch of San Francisco's social marketing campaign to raise awareness and use of the FC2 Female Condom® among people living at risk of HIV infection. The FC2 Female Condom remains the only FDA-approved method of female-initiated HIV prevention available. FHC is working actively with public health departments and other partners to introduce FC2 in U.S. cities with the highest...

By Kristen Bole, UCSFThe vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV) can prevent 90 percent of genital warts in men when offered before exposure to the four HPV strains covered by the vaccine, according to a new multi-center study led by H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and UCSF. The four-year, international clinical trial, which also found a nearly 66 percent effectiveness in the general population of young men regardless of prior exposure to these strains, provides the first reported results of...

Hepatitis C is a leading cause of illness and death for individuals infected with both HIV and hepatitis C.  Recent reports from around the world demonstrate that hepatitis C is emerging as a sexually transmitted infection among HIV-infected men who do not inject drugs.  However, many HIV-infected men do not receive continued screening for hepatitis C throughout their HIV care.  Hepatitis C symptoms often do not manifest themselves until the later stages of the illness, so people are...

A new study from the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute has found that Black and especially Hispanic young women are screened for chlamydia at a significantly higher rate than young white women. This discrepancy in screening rates may contribute to nationwide reporting of higher rates of this sexually transmitted disease among minority young women.The research, which used data from more than 40,000 visits to health care facilities, appears in the February...

Women who have had chlamydia are at greater risk of an ectopic pregnancy because of a lasting effect of the infection.A new study provides evidence for the first time of how chlamydia can increase the risk of an ectopic pregnancy.In an ectopic pregnancy the embryo implants outside the womb, generally in the Fallopian tube.Role of proteinUniversity researchers found that women who had had the sexually transmitted infection were more likely to produce a particular protein in their Fallopian...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A new study reveals circumcision may prevent the spread of the human papillomavirus (HPV).According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection. There are more than 40 HPV types that can infect the genital areas of males and females. These HPV types can also infect the mouth and throat. In women, a high-risk HPV infection can be a precondition for cervical cancer.Previous studies have shown that male...

UPPER MARLBORO, Md., Jan. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cervical cancer is the second leading cause of cancer in women worldwide, yet it is almost always preventable - with the Pap test, the HPV test and the HPV vaccine. That's what the Pearl of Wisdom Campaign to Prevent Cervical Cancer wants women to know - and share with their mothers, daughters, sisters and friends. Starting in January, National Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, this coalition of leading women's health advocates is asking...

FLORHAM PARK, N.J., Jan. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- PharmaDerm, a division of Nycomed US Inc., announced today that VEREGEN® (sinecatechins) Ointment, 15%, a topical medication for the treatment of external genital and perianal warts (EGWs), has been added as a new therapeutic option in the 2010 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) Treatment Guidelines.(1) The new report, developed by the CDC after consultation with a group of professionals...

The American Thoracic Society has released a new official clinical policy statement on the treatment of fungal infections in adult pulmonary and critical care patients. The statement replaces ATS guidelines published in 1988, and takes into account new medications and treatment approaches, as well as provides an overview of emerging fungi.The statement appears in the January 1, 2011, issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.Pulmonary fungal infections occur...