Genital Herpes News

Herpes is a very common sexually transmitted disease . There are risk factors that can make it risky for pregnant women, particularly if they have their first or initial outbreak near term or the end of their ...

Treating genital herpes doesn't lower the risk of contracting HIV. That's the disappointing finding of a study published in the British medical journal The Lancet.

For the study, Connie Celum of the University of Washington-Seattle and colleagues enrolled 3,172 men and women in Africa, Peru and the U.S. . All the participants were HIV-negative and HSV-2-positive at the ...

According to a new city Health Department study, one in four adults in New York City has genital herpes .

What is herpes? Are there different types of herpes? In this article, you'll learn what herpes is, the different type of herpes, and how to live a healthy, active life with herpes. via Associated Content

Valacyclovir has been proven to be an effective treatment for the herpes simplex virus 2 , or the virus more commonly known as genital herpes . via The PharmVoice

I certainly appreciate readers' questions based on my last article on herpes and I will attempt to answer as many of them as possible. via Jamaica Gleaner

“FDA of the 20th century is not adequate to regulate the food and drugs of the 21st century.”

What's worse than breast tenderness and nausea in the female effort to prevent pregnancy? Heart attack, stroke or death. via Seacoast Online

“The question of viral shedding between these different schedules, however, is yet to be studied.”

NEW YORK - Recurrent outbreaks of herpes simplex virus 2 , or "genital herpes," can be effectively treated with a one-day course of valacyclovir , according to results of a pilot study published ... via Reuters

Main Category: Sexual Health / STDs Also Included In: IT / Internet / E-mail Article Date: 24 Mar 2008 - 4:00 PDT newsletters Online medical service DrThom has teamed up with HIV and sexual health charity, ... via Medical News Today

“These data show no evidence that acyclovir (400 mg twice daily) as HSV suppressive therapy decreases the incidence of infection with HIV.”

One of the stories that received prominent coverage at the 15th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections last month in Boston was a report that treating genital herpes with acyclovir failed to ... via HIV and Hepatitis

“These data show no evidence that acyclovir as HSV-suppressive therapy decreases the incidence of infection with HIV”

Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: Sexual Health / STDs Article Date: 17 Mar 2008 Treating genital herpes does not reduce the risk of contracting HIV, according to a study published Wednesday in the ... via MediLexicon

A new study examining whether treating genital herpes reduces the risk for HIV transmission found that herpes medications do little to protect sexual partners from HIV infections, Reuters reports . via POZ

“It reaches 40 percent in high risk groups such as workers in bars and guesthouses, who may supplement their income by offering sex in return for money or gifts”

A second study has found that treating genital herpes infections does not protect people from the AIDS virus. via Reuters

Gaithersburg drugmaker GenVec , Inc. said this morning that it has received a $600,000 two-year grant to help in its development of a vaccine to treat genital herpes.

The grant is a Small Business Innovation and Research grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health .

It will be used to developed novel adenovector-based vaccines for HSV-2, the virus responsible for most cases of genital herpes.

GenVec shares closed at $1.14 on the Nasdaq yesterday. Read more

Years ago, a distressed female client visited me with a prescription. She had noticed the development of painful blisters on her genitals and had visited her doctor who diagnosed genital herpes. via Jamaica Gleaner

“Management of herpes in Africa needs to shift from syndromic management”

Giving people with genital herpes an advance supply of anti-herpes medication and instructions on how to recognise the early signs of a herpes attack may be the most effective way of limiting the spread of HIV ... via Aidsmap

It's more common in women than men . 2. Symptoms: Most people who have genital herpes don't know it because they've never had any symptoms or don't recognize them. via Chicago Tribune

“Making breast feeding safe is an urgent need”

A once-promising experiment to see if treating genital herpes with a common drug could dramatically reduce susceptibility to HIV infection has found no protection whatsoever. via KansasCity.com

“We are not trying to alter genes, we're just trying to swap a small proportion of the bad ones for some good ones”

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: Human embryos that contain DNA from two women and one man have been created by British scientists who used a ... via HON