In Home STD Tests Home STD testing has finally come of age with the reliable Over the Counter STD test offered by My Lab Box. The company sends quality STD screening kits, discreetly packaged, to your home. The tests can be self-administered and take …
Fake STD Report of Names and Diseases for Baton Rouge The Washington Department of Health and Hospitals declared an STD fax list published on Social Media to be a fake. The fake STD report purported to be a fax report from the Leo …
STD Billboard Campaign The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, or AHF, launched a new billboard campaign targeted at users of location-based mobile dating apps. The apps are often referred to as mobile hookup apps, because they use the GPS functionality in your …
There is no STD test privacy. That’s because most sexually-transmitted diseases are reportable diseases in every state. It means that someone has to submit a report to the health department every time there’s a positive test for an STD. While …
In August 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug fibanserin, sold by Sprout Pharmaceuticals under the brand name Addyi, for use in treating premenopausal women with a low sexual desire, called hypoactive sexual desire disorder, or HSDD. …
In March 2015, New York’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, or DOHMH, closed the busiest free STD clinic in the city, without advance notification to the community and apparently without many plans to serve the 20,000 annual patients who …
Prevent getting an STD by educating yourself, having a monogamous relationship, having fewer sex partners, using condoms and getting tested regularly.
A startup company has developed a ring that sits on the thumb, numbs an area with vibrations, inserts a needle and takes a blood sample. The blood sample is split into four channels that simultaneously test for chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and trichomoniasis. The results are sent to a smartphone in fewer than 60 seconds.
When your STD infection is cured, you can easily become reinfected if your partner wasn’t tested and treated for the STD at the same time. The CDC has a controversial program that provides two prescriptions to STD-infected patients: one for the patient and one for his partner.
If you have a sexually-transmitted disease, there is not a single reason to wait to get tested and to get treatment. Delaying treatment makes the treatment more difficult and damage from the disease more permanent. If you wait too long, you won’t be able to have an anonymous STD test anymore.