Nearly 25 years after a newsmagazine declared that an epidemic of genital herpes threatened to undo the sexual revolution, a new study has found an encouraging decline in the percentage of people infected with the herpes virus.
Back in 1982 a Time cover story headlined “The New Scarlet Letter” sounded an alarm that seems almost quaint […]
(WebMD) Infections with the genital herpes virus are down in the U.S., reversing an upward trend.
It doesn’t mean genital herpes isn’t a problem. About one in six Americans (17 percent) had the genital herpes virus — called HSV-2 — during 1999-2004. But that is down from the 21% rate seen in 1988-1994.
The good news comes […]
A government-funded study testing a herpes vaccine is under way at more than 20 sites across the United States.
The study of 7,500 women will examine whether the vaccine, given in three doses within six months, can prevent infections in women ages 17 to 35 who have not been exposed to either HSV-1 or HSV-2.
Drugs Online […]
A WHO/UNAIDS panel has concluded that treating sexually transmitted diseases can reduce the spread of HIV, both biologically and by causing changes in risky sexual behavior.
Not everybody who is exposed to HIV automatically becomes infected with the deadly virus, according to King Holmes, the director of the Center on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) […]
The FDA has approved the drug Famvir as the first and only one-day antiviral treatment for recurrent genital herpesgenital herpes and cold sorescold sores in people with healthy immune systems.
The drug’s maker, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., announced the FDA approval in a news release dated July 28.
At least 45 million people age 12 and older in […]
Ft. Smith, Arkansas (PRWEB) August 7, 2006 — Does herpes have to last forever? Not according to Dr. Allan Fjeistrup, M.D. of Stavanger, Norway.
Dr. Fjeistrup has now administered a new protocol developed by Imulux to 100 of his patients in Norway and over 200 participants of a clinical trial conducted in Henderson, Nevada. All of […]
If you’ve ever had warts, those black-dotted barnacles that sprout from skin or mucous membranes, you probably know they come not from smooching frogs but from a germ, the human papilloma virus (HPV). It enters the body through moist or compromised skin through direct or indirect contact, and the virus remains present and contagious until […]