Taking an antibiotic after sex could help curb three common STDsdoi:10.1126/science.ade1303Jon CohenScience
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“Increases in STDsare a clear warning of a growing threat,”Jonathan H. Mermin, MD, MPH,director of the CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention, said in a press release. “STDs are a persistent enemy, growing ...
While effective methods are available in Tajikistan, Bolivia and Palestine, there remain barriers to use. In Tajikistan, oppositional attitudes towards contraception is the most common reason women with a Demographic and Health Surveys-defined (DHS) unmet need [34] provide for not using contraception...
Primer on multiple regression coding: common forms and the additional case of repeated contrasts. Underst Stat. 2004;3(1):47–57. doi:10.1207/s15328031us0301_3. Article Google Scholar Schenker N, Gentleman JF. On judging the significance of differences by examining the overlap between ...
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Given the common multiple sexual partnerships and low rate of condom use in this population, more health education and harm reduction programs are urgently needed to change their low perception of HIV infection risk and increase their confidence in practicing safer sex. We recognized the limitations ...
It’s not of the exact form Maxwell imagined, of course, but it does produce interesting, pseudo-magical effects that seem to defy common sense until you analyze them at the level of the demon — the level of individual molecules. Update 2014.01.29 — sweating section added; “two” ...
Anal infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) is extremely common in men who have sex with men (MSM)1,2,3. Although most HPV infections are transient and clinically unapparent, close attention has been paid to HPV because of its causal link to certain cancers. Besides the established associat...
Without active treatment, mortality and health care costs due to HCV are expected to increase over the next two decades [2]. People who inject drugs (PWID) constitute 60% of the approximately 5 million people in the U.S. infected with HCV [3]. Although a large proportion of PWID with ...