Sentences with phrase «transmitted disease»

The knowledge that a genetic variant increases the risk of spreading a sexually transmitted disease might lead to negative judgments about, and marginalization of, individuals who carry that variant.

A vaccine for an extremely common sexually transmitted disease — human papillomavirus, or HPV — is making big strides in the war against cancer.

Neighborhood SES is linked to higher odds of acquiring sexually transmitted disease during pregnancy.

White mothers are more vulnerable to acquiring sexually transmitted disease during pregnancy when living in racially segregated neighborhoods.

Compared with children who were diagnosed with ADHD but did not receive medication, those who took medication were 3.6 percentage points less likely to contract a sexually transmitted disease, 7.3 percentage points less likely to have a substance - abuse disorder and 2.3 percentage points less likely to be injured.

The sexually transmitted disease, which can lead to infertility in men and women, is treatable with antibiotics, but resistance is spreading around the globe

Even though using social media to predict sexually transmitted disease will never be perfect, if the analysis is carefully carried out it «can provide a lot of information,» says Alessandro Vespignani at Northeastern University, Boston, who was one of the authors of a prominent paper on Google Flu Trends, which used a similar method in an attempt to predict flu outbreaks.

Oversharing on social media may be annoying, but it could predict the next outbreak of sexually transmitted disease.

The marsupials are known for their active sex lives, and as many as 50 percent of the koalas treated at the university have shown signs of the sexually transmitted disease.

Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) released new guidelines for treating gonorrhea that reflect the sobering reality that this sexually transmitted disease is becoming ever more difficult to treat.

Chlamydia is the nation's most common sexually transmitted disease and causes infertility, ectopic pregnancy and pelvic inflammatory disease if left untreated.

«Our study affirms and may help explain why people who regularly use cocaine are more willing to partake in risky sex when under the influence of cocaine, and underscores why public health officials and physicians should be ensuring that cocaine users are supplied with condoms to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted disease,» says Matthew Johnson, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

However, they can not rule out the possibility that the seals transmitted the disease to an unknown host, which then infected people.

Nearly all cervical cancers are caused by HPV (human papillomavirus) infections, the most common sexually transmitted disease.

«Using the same flawed logic, we should eliminate Pap smears because they're looking for the same sexually transmitted disease this vaccine prevents,» Koutsky says.

Extracts from the brains of FFI patients transmitted disease to transgenic mice expressing a chimeric human - mouse PrP gene about 200 days after inoculation and induced formation of the 19 - kilodalton PrPSc fragment, whereas extracts from the brains of familial and sporadic Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease patients produced the 21 - kilodalton PrPSc fragment in these mice.

«Substance - related problems such as binge drinking, driving under the influence of alcohol, and risky sexual behavior are more important than others due to their association with reckless driving, automobile accidents, physical injuries and even death, as well as risk for sexually transmitted disease and unplanned pregnancy.»

HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease in Canada and is linked to cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx, penis, anus and others, in addition to causing cervical cancer and anogenital warts.

Trichomoniasis, sometimes referred to as «trich» or the ping pong disease, is a common sexually transmitted disease that affects 2 to 3 million Americans yearly.

Getting parents to be comfortable with the idea of a vaccine for young children that is intended to prevent a sexually transmitted disease may prove just as difficult for boys as it was for girls, Schaffner said.

The vaccine protects against four common strains of the virus, considered the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States.

Women are a major focus in the fight against the sexually transmitted disease since in Africa they account for more than half of all new HIV infections.

Such factors include whether someone has evidence of an intellectual disability, has a history of mental illness or has been diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease.

«HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the world, and is a risk factor for several cancers, including cervical, vaginal, vulvar, oropharyngeal [throat / tonsil], anal, and penile cancer,» says Eduardo L. Franco, Professor and Director of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology at McGill University.

These estimates are orders of magnitude higher than those for the so - called general population in Britain, but comparable with figures for certain other groups at high risk of infection, such as gay men attending clinics for sexually transmitted disease.

That is the case in another rare contagious cancer, canine transmissible venereal tumor (CTVT), a sexually transmitted disease in dogs traced to a single animal now dead for millennia.

Christopher Columbus was said to have brought this sexually transmitted disease back from his voyage to America.

2007 marked the seventh consecutive year in which incidence of the sexually transmitted disease increased

A decade ago, this week, scientists at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the Institute for Genomic Research announced they had decoded the genetic information inside Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes the sexually transmitted disease (STD) syphilis.

At the time, Penelope Hitchcock, the chief of the sexually transmitted disease branch of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), hailed the work as critical to developing better drugs.

Ina Park is a medical epidemiologist with a passion for empowering and informing others about sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention.

Should adolescent girls be required to get a vaccine for a potentially lethal sexually transmitted disease?

One of the first known examples was syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum.

Researchers from Emory University in Atlanta report in the online journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases that they used phylogenetics — the study of the evolutionary link between organisms — to study 26 geographically scattered strains of a family of bacteria known as Treponemes, which are behind the sexually transmitted disease syphilis as well as related nonvenereal infections such as yaws.

In nine categories of ill health ranging from infant mortality rates to the prevalence of sexually transmitted disease, US citizens consistently came at or near the bottom of the table.

In the advanced online edition of Molecular Biology and Evolution, authors Domman, et al. have explored factors behind the resilience of the most common sexually transmitted disease in the U.S., chlamydia, with an estimated 1 million infected.

A new app stores sexually transmitted disease test results in one place and, if you like, can discretely notify sex partners of your health status

At the 2015 AACC Annual Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo, researchers will present findings that a first - of - its - kind smartphone test for chlamydia can detect the disease with high accuracy, which could reduce the prevalence of this sexually transmitted disease (STD) by making chlamydia screening easier and cheaper.

In this case, the two tests are Pap smears and screens for the most common sexually transmitted disease: chlamydia.

It's a tale of two tests: one for early signs of cervical cancer, the other for a sexually transmitted disease.

Commissioner of Health Feted for Work in Erie County; Focus on Adolescent Health and Sexually Transmitted Disease Treatment and Prevention (12/04/2014)

The Erie County Department of Health provides free, confidential screening for HIV at their walk - in Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic at 608 William Street, Buffalo, NY, 14206.

The Erie County Department of Health provides free, confidential HIV screening and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) at their Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic at 608 William Street, Buffalo, NY, 14206.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Onondaga County has the dubious distinction of having some of the state's highest rates of sexually transmitted disease.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito revealed Sunday on Twitter that she has HPV, a sexually transmitted disease that can cause cancer.

Erie County accounted for 6,953 of the metro area's reported sexually transmitted disease cases in 2015, most of them centered in seven zip codes in Buffalo with minority and low - income populations, according to Erie County data.

Doctors are to conduct medical tests on the 21 Chibok girls for any sexually transmitted disease like the HIV / AID, a security source told The PUNCH in Abuja on Thursday.

Joining in the ribbon cutting are Housing Works CEO Charles King, Levine, Barrio, Dr. Sue Blank, the city's assistant commissioner for sexually transmitted disease control, Bassett, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, the city's deputy commissioner for disease control, TAG's Jeremiah Johnson, Dr. Eunmee Chun, director of sexual health at the Callen - Lorde Community Health Center, Dr. Freddy Molano, vice president of Infectious Diseases and LGBTQ Programs at the Community Healthcare Network, and McMorrow.

«This action, if not immediately remedied... will undoubtedly result in excess HIV and other [sexually transmitted disease] infections.»

«We neglected to consult with the community and this was not a good idea,» said Dr. Sue Blank, the assistant commissioner who oversees sexually transmitted disease control at the city health department, at the March 15 event.