Category Archives: Gonorrhea Testing

Online STD Testing Arrives in Miami

By admin | Published: May 18, 2012

In the past, STD testing involved an embarrassing trip to a Miami clinic or doctor.  many Miami residents have chosen not to be tested at all, thereby increasing the spread of STDs such as HIV, chlamydia, and gonorrhea.  Now, Miami has a new choice when it comes to STD testing: online STD testing.Online STD testing [...]

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Barnidge: Lice removal business is a head scratcher for Martinez

By admin | Published: May 17, 2012

The issue bugging Martinez is head lice. As soon as the prospective owners of Ladybugs Lice Removal received planning commission approval and announced they were “coming soon” to 533 Main St., neighboring merchants responded in unison, “Oh, no, you’re not.”It was the kind of welcome you might expect for a biohazard lab or a gonorrhea [...]

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TV Show ‘Girls’ Adds to the Muddle on HPV Testing

By admin | Published: May 16, 2012

Jojo Whilden/HBO The much-discussed third episode of the HBO series “Girls” was rife with misinformation about HPV.Hannah, the spunky central character in the edgy new HBO series “Girls,” is a creative and endearingly naïve 24-year-old bumbling fearlessly through postcollege life. she works for years at an unpaid internship that never turns into a job and [...]

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San Diego's Gen-Probe bought for $3.7 billion

By admin | Published: May 16, 2012

Hologic of Bedford, Mass., said Monday it is buying Gen-Probe, a 29-year-old company known worldwide for its diagnostic tests and equipment. Gen-Probe recently won FDA approval for Progensa, a test that determines if men who have prostate cancer need a biopsy.The deal comes only a week after San Diego’s Ardea Biosciences was purchased by British [...]

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Sex and the Senior Set – 2

By admin | Published: May 16, 2012

A February study published in the Student British Medical Journal is only the latest in a string of reports to find sexually transmitted disease rates increasing dramatically among seniors.?Some 80 percent of British, Canadian and American seniors, 50 to 90 years old, are sexually active, the study reports. And STD diagnoses for those ages 45 [...]

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