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		<title>Study: Older Generations Need Sexual Health Education Too</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Crees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While there are plenty of women over 50 years old who date and are sexually active, a new study finds that these women may lack important information about sexual health because education campaigns are typically targeted towards younger generations.
Dr. Cynthia Morton and colleagues at the University of Florida surveyed women aged 50 and older about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Often Are College Students Actually Hooking Up?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Crees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[College students talk about hooking up, a lot – much more than it actually happens, as it turns out.
Naturally, this leads to some mistaken perceptions among the students about the frequency of these types of encounters.
The study, which took place at the University of Nebraska, defined hooking up as “casual intimate encounters outside of dating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Strain of Gonorrhea Resistant to All Current Antibiotics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Crees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An international research team has discovered a strain of gonorrhea that is resistant to all currently available antibiotics.  Scientists worry the new strain may transform a common and easily treatable infection into a global threat to public health.
The discovery was made by Dr. Magnus Unemo, Dr. Makoto Ohnishi, and colleagues at the Swedish Reference Laboratory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warning: You May Want to Put Down the Coffee if You Want to Get Pregnant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 15:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Crees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study may explain why caffeine consumption can hurt a woman’s chances of getting pregnant.
The results of a study conducted in mice show that caffeine can reduce muscle activity in the fallopian tubes, which are responsible for carrying eggs from the ovaries to the womb.
It is generally assumed that tiny hair-like structures, called cilia, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starting HIV Treatment Right Away Can Drastically Lower Probability of Passing It On</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 16:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Somers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a new study, treating HIV infections right away could lower patients’ chances of spreading the AIDS virus to sexual partners, US News and World Report reported.
This, in turn, could prevent millions of infections around the world.
The major international study was funded by the National Institutes of Health.  Its findings could encourage doctors and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did You Get Your STD Medication Without A Prescription?  It Probably Doesn&#8217;t Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 16:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Crees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Government agencies are warning consumers to be wary of over-the-counter drugs that claim to treat, prevent, or cure sexually transmitted diseases, WebMD reported.
The FDA and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a joint effort to remove “dangerous” products that make such claims, specifically, Medavir, Herpaflor, Viruxo, C-Cure, and Never An Outbreak.
According to the FDA, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Female&#8221; Disease That Heightens Cancer Risk in Men</title>
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		<comments>http://www.askdrmanny.com/the-female-disease-that-heightens-cancer-risk-in-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Manny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until now, human papilloma virus (HPV) has been viewed as a &#8220;female&#8221; disease.  That&#8217;s no surprise &#8211; after all, the most of the advertisements we have seen for HPV vaccines have pretty much targeted women exclusively.
That needs to change.
A new study of 1000 men revealed that half of them were infected with HPV, KRCG news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alcohol Addiction Drug May Be Capable of Fighting Onset of AIDS</title>
		<link>http://www.askdrmanny.com/alcohol-addiction-drug-may-be-capable-of-fighting-onset-of-aids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Manny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A drug normally used to treat alcohol abuse will be tested for it&#8217;s effectiveness in eliminating the last vestiges of HIV in the body, Bloomberg News reported.
Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, and Johns Hopkins University will recruit 20 HIV-infected people for a clinical trial of the drug Antabase to see if it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STD Testing Website Hopes to Curb Spread Among Teenagers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Manny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Testing for sexually transmitted diseases has gone cyber, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Public health officials are combating the spread of STDs among young people by way of a website that supplies free in-home testing  kits for the three of the most common STDs.
&#8220;The highest prevalence is in young adults, and we knew we had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birth Control Pills Do Not Cause Weight Gain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Manny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ladies, if you&#8217;re gaining weight and looking to cut something from your diet &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t have to be your oral contraceptive.
According to researchers from the Oregon Health &#38; Science University, the birth control pill does not cause weight gain, HealthNews.com reported.
Researchers divided rhesus macaque monkeys &#8211; whose reproductive system is almost identical to that [...]]]></description>
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