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What You Need to Know About Bacterial Vaginosis

What’s Chlamydia and How Does It Affect Me?

7 Ways to Treat Erectile Dysfunction

Treatment for men unable to have an erection took a great leap forward when the first oral erectile dysfunction (ED) medication, Viagra (sildenafil), was introduced in 1998. But there have been strides recently in a range of other ED treatments too, ranging from over-the-counter pumps to surgical implants and suppositories.
Diagnosing your own ED is not More >

How to Find Out if You Have Herpes Type 1 or 2

Syphilis Is Still One of the Most Common STDs

What You Need to Know About HIV Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention

Here are some basic facts about how HIV works.
For up-to-date information on avoiding HIV as well as tools for facing the challenges of living with the virus, visit POZ.com.
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How Do I Know if I Have Genital Warts?

Sex Behind the Nursing Home Curtain

By Nell BernsteinCourtesy of Caring.com
The sexual life of our elders is something we younger folks shudder to imagine (and I confess to being guilty)—whether it’s an aversion to thinking about what goes on behind a parent’s closed bedroom door, or horror at the notion of Viagra in the medicine cabinet.
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Can Circumcision Prevent the Spread of Herpes, HPV, Other STDs?

Men who are circumcised are less likely to get sexually transmitted infections such as genital herpes and human papillomavirus (HPV), but not syphilis.
This finding—published in a March, 2009 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine—adds to the evidence that there are health benefits to circumcision, the surgical removal of the penis foreskin, usually More >

Study Links BPA in Plastics to Erectile Dysfunction

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11, 2009 (Health.com) — Bisphenol-A (BPA), a chemical found in hard, clear plastic used to make everything from baby bottles to food packaging, may increase the risk of erectile dysfunction and other sexual problems in male factory workers exposed to large amounts of the substance, according to a study conducted in China.
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