Pro-Choice Friday News Rundown
Republican legislators in Arizona sure have a lot of nerve. They want to mandate that doctors performing abortions ask “why” a woman is terminating her pregnancy. What is the “why” behind this...
View ArticleSTD Awareness: Fighting Cervical Cancer Across the World
Tomorrow kicks off World Immunization Week, a reminder that, just as disease can cross borders, so should our efforts to prevent it. Especially when we have an effective vaccine for one of the world’s...
View ArticleSTD Awareness: Eliminating HPV-Related Cancers
Earlier this month, every major cancer center and organization in the country released a joint statement calling for the elimination of cervical cancer, along with all other HPV-related cancers. The...
View ArticleSTD Awareness: Can Older Adults Receive the HPV Vaccine?
When the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines were introduced, a lot of people were excited about protection from a sexually transmitted virus that could cause cancers, including cervical cancer, anal...
View ArticleFrom HPV to Cancer to Dry Mouth
Despite what a lot of people might think, oral sex is sex — not “third base,” not “everything but” — carrying with it the potential for both pleasure and disease transmission. That includes oral...
View ArticleSTD Awareness: Winning One War on Cancer
Cancer starts with the uncontrolled division of cells. The developed world is in the midst of a huge nosedive in genital warts and cervical “precancer” — all thanks to the human papillomavirus (HPV)...
View ArticleSTD Awareness: How Do I Tell Someone I Have Herpes? Or HPV? Or HIV?
Image provided by Katie to Vice Of all the novel ways to jump-start a difficult conversation, presenting someone with a hand-drawn comic about herpes is among the most creative. A couple of weeks ago,...
View ArticleSTD Awareness: Can the HPV Vaccine Prevent Head-and-Neck Cancer?
Photo: Heather Hazzan, Self Magazine The HPV vaccine Gardasil protects against human papillomavirus, a prolific virus that causes many types of cancer. In fact, although it was initially approved to...
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