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Magic Mushrooms And Mental Health: What Brain Scans Reveal
Researchers investigated the brain activity changes caused by psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms.
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Killing 2.5 Million People Every Year Globally: UN
According to the UN report, four common sexually transmitted infections (STIs) - syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, and trichomoniasis - are spreading rapidly.
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US Faces A Surge In Unmanageable Sexually Transmitted Infection Epidemic
The United States is facing a serious public health crisis as sexually transmitted infections (STIs) continue to surge across the country. CDC has labeled the situation as "out-of-control," with alarming increases in cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, and
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''Syphilis Epidemic'': Cases Of Sexually Transmitted Disease Shoot Up In US
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cases increased by nearly 80% to more than 207,000 between 2018 and 2022.
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US To Recommend Antibiotic Pill After Sex To Prevent Infections
Amid soaring rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis, US health authorities on Monday proposed that doctors begin prescribing a common antibiotic as a pill taken after sex, despite concerns over fueling more resistant strains.
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Syphilis In Babies Skyrockets In Canada Amid Rising Drug Use
Public health researchers and clinicians said the rates of congenital syphilis began increasing before the pandemic and worsened as public health agencies diverted resources to COVID-19 testing and other pandemic-related health measures.
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Know All About These STDs Which Can Spread Through Oral Sex
Oral sex, which involves the use of mouth, tongue or lips, poses the same kind of risks of catching STD as other sexual activities.
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6 Things You Should Know About Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Sexual contact may make you develop dangerous sexually transmitted diseases like HIV, genital herpes, Syphilis, gonorrhoea etc. But do you think you know all you need to know about STDs? Here are 6 things you should know about Sexually transmitted diseases.
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Can India Promise Its Children HIV-Free Future? NACO Programme Gives Hope
Geeta, 24, is seven months pregnant and is grossly underweight. She and her husband are HIV positive. Her husband believes he got infected through blood transfusions during a surgery. “I want my child to be HIV negative like my first child,” she says. It is estimated that 6,500 children are born every year with HIV in India. One-third of them ...
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17 Countries in Americas May Have Eliminated Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission: UN
Data from 17 countries and territories across the Americas, including the United States, Canada and Chile, show they may have eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, the UN World Health Organization said on Monday.
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Cuba Becomes First Nation to Eliminate Mother-to-Child HIV
Cuba on Tuesday became the first country in the world to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, the World Health Organization said.
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A Smartphone Device That Can Detect HIV in 15 Minutes!
A team of researchers from Columbia University have developed a low-cost smartphone dongle that can detect HIV and syphilis in just 15 minutes by using a finger-prick of blood.
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Now, a Low-Cost Smartphone-Based Test for HIV, Syphilis
The mobile lab device costs $34 to make, compared with more than $18,000 for the gold standard diagnostic equipment.
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US apologises for Syphilis program in Guatemala
From 1946 to 1948, American public health doctors deliberately infected nearly 700 Guatemalans -- prison inmates, mental patients and soldiers -- with venereal diseases in what was meant as an effort to test the effectiveness of penicillin.American tax dollars, through the National Institutes of Health, even paid for syphilis-infected prostitutes t...
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Oral sex leads to syphilis
Many people mistakenly believe that oral sex is safe, unaware that they can catch or pass on syphilis through it.
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Magic Mushrooms And Mental Health: What Brain Scans Reveal
Researchers investigated the brain activity changes caused by psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms.
-
Sexually Transmitted Diseases Killing 2.5 Million People Every Year Globally: UN
According to the UN report, four common sexually transmitted infections (STIs) - syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, and trichomoniasis - are spreading rapidly.
-
US Faces A Surge In Unmanageable Sexually Transmitted Infection Epidemic
The United States is facing a serious public health crisis as sexually transmitted infections (STIs) continue to surge across the country. CDC has labeled the situation as "out-of-control," with alarming increases in cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, and
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''Syphilis Epidemic'': Cases Of Sexually Transmitted Disease Shoot Up In US
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cases increased by nearly 80% to more than 207,000 between 2018 and 2022.
-
US To Recommend Antibiotic Pill After Sex To Prevent Infections
Amid soaring rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis, US health authorities on Monday proposed that doctors begin prescribing a common antibiotic as a pill taken after sex, despite concerns over fueling more resistant strains.
-
Syphilis In Babies Skyrockets In Canada Amid Rising Drug Use
Public health researchers and clinicians said the rates of congenital syphilis began increasing before the pandemic and worsened as public health agencies diverted resources to COVID-19 testing and other pandemic-related health measures.
-
Know All About These STDs Which Can Spread Through Oral Sex
Oral sex, which involves the use of mouth, tongue or lips, poses the same kind of risks of catching STD as other sexual activities.
-
6 Things You Should Know About Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Sexual contact may make you develop dangerous sexually transmitted diseases like HIV, genital herpes, Syphilis, gonorrhoea etc. But do you think you know all you need to know about STDs? Here are 6 things you should know about Sexually transmitted diseases.
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Can India Promise Its Children HIV-Free Future? NACO Programme Gives Hope
Geeta, 24, is seven months pregnant and is grossly underweight. She and her husband are HIV positive. Her husband believes he got infected through blood transfusions during a surgery. “I want my child to be HIV negative like my first child,” she says. It is estimated that 6,500 children are born every year with HIV in India. One-third of them ...
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17 Countries in Americas May Have Eliminated Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission: UN
Data from 17 countries and territories across the Americas, including the United States, Canada and Chile, show they may have eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, the UN World Health Organization said on Monday.
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Cuba Becomes First Nation to Eliminate Mother-to-Child HIV
Cuba on Tuesday became the first country in the world to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, the World Health Organization said.
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A Smartphone Device That Can Detect HIV in 15 Minutes!
A team of researchers from Columbia University have developed a low-cost smartphone dongle that can detect HIV and syphilis in just 15 minutes by using a finger-prick of blood.
-
Now, a Low-Cost Smartphone-Based Test for HIV, Syphilis
The mobile lab device costs $34 to make, compared with more than $18,000 for the gold standard diagnostic equipment.
-
US apologises for Syphilis program in Guatemala
From 1946 to 1948, American public health doctors deliberately infected nearly 700 Guatemalans -- prison inmates, mental patients and soldiers -- with venereal diseases in what was meant as an effort to test the effectiveness of penicillin.American tax dollars, through the National Institutes of Health, even paid for syphilis-infected prostitutes t...
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Oral sex leads to syphilis
Many people mistakenly believe that oral sex is safe, unaware that they can catch or pass on syphilis through it.
