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POPSHPV 1 What's the meaning, if any, of an HPV diagnosis in relation to a rape allegation?
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POPSResearchers close on chlamidia vaccine For the Australian native koala. When combined with habitat destruction, chlamydial disease continues to be a major threat to koalas. The disease is similar to the strain suffered by humans, and the research could help develop a vaccine in humans.
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POPSClueless on STDs, Throat Cancer, and Oral Sex Clipmarks and the internet in general are loaded with "sexy" clips, videos, cartoons, etc... So I thought a small dose of the down-side of promiscuity was fair and maybe informative. "...well over half of American teens now engage in oral sex..." Read it and weep.
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POPS'Promiscuity leads to lower grades' The poll comes only months after it was claimed Cambridge students were working as prostitutes, strippers and escorts to earn extra money. According to reports, some female students work as call girls and lapdancers while others are said to be signed up to a local escort agency.
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POPSTrachoma programs fail Indigenous Australians Trachoma is spread through poor hygiene and living conditions, and disappeared in non-Indigenous Australians about 100 years ago. Australia is the only developed country to still have the preventable disease. The conditions in which Indigenous Australians live could hardly be described as developed. Perhaps Australia could be described as selectively developed.
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POPSChamber of Commerce Begs for Help While not a humorous topic I couldn't help flashing on the furrowed brows within the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce as they wrestle how to work this into their next tourist promotion.
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POPSU.S. sets record in sexual disease cases The increase is relative to U.S. figures There are likely to be higher rates elsewhere, but the trend, is an indication of the ability of bacteria to develop immunity to antibiotics.Apart from the unsafe sex practices. It seems to be becoming more of a threat because people have not yet listened to alerts to the continued adaptation of bacteria to overcome the barriers that we put up against them. For the sake of sex, we can choose not to remember the risks. If someone already has a virus, they aren't afraid of catching it
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POPSYou're Never Too Old For Sex...or STDs! 
"However, Dr. Hutcherson says that's a fallacy. Patients often are too shy to ask their doctors difficult sexual questions -- so doctors need to ask them directly, she says. "I say, 'How's your sex life?' and then wait for the answer. And that normalizes and makes it much easier for an older woman to say, 'Well, there are some issues that I want to talk to you about.'" Author of "What Your Mother Never Told You About S-e-x" and a columnist who writes for Essence and Glamour magazines, Dr. Hutcherson is blunt about asking her patients if they're practicing safe sex. It could save their lives. Statistics show that although the highest number of new HIV cases is in people in their thirties and forties, there are now more patients being diagnosed in their fifties than in their twenties. 'Sex Is Life-Long' So, once they're practicing safe sex, Dr. Hutcherson says it's time to make sure they're having enjoyable sex. "Sex is life-long," she says. "You should never give up on somethin