‘Genital Herpes’ News
Poor sexual health and unsafe sexual behavior increased the sexual transmitted infections (STIs) in UK, the trend is up
According to the Health Protection Agency (HPA), the trend of sexual transmitted infections (STIs) in United Kingdom seen upward. Almost half a million (mean 482,696) new cases of STIs recorded in 2009. 12,000 new cases raised compared to previous year. Two-third women aged 25 to 24 were diagnosed with new ...
Obesity and being overweight in adolescent girls more predictive in high-risk sexual behavior
Not only overweight and obese impact to a risk of serious health problem, recent findings also found it may influence individual risky sexual behavior. Compare with normal-weight peers, the researchers found that obese and overweight adolescent girls were more likely to have sex before the age of 13 years and to ...
Phenomenon of drug resistance in patient with cytomegalovirus infection
In the session of transplant infections at the 30th Anniversary Meeting of the International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation, investigator from Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois, said that the resistance of herpes viral genus of cytomegalovirus (CMV) to ganciclovir prophylaxis (an antiviral medication) might be related to ...
16% Americans aged 14 to 49 affected with genital herpes
According to a report of seroprevalence of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) from 2005 to 2008, approximately 16% of Americans with the range of aged 14 to 49 years affected with genital herpes. Published on April 23rd, 2010, in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report, F. Xu, MD, PhD, from ...
Acyclovir works only 2 months for genital herpes HSV-1 and 2 treatment, and can’t prevent the spreading of HIV infection
Effectiveness of Acyclovir or valacyclovir among women with simplex herpes HSV-2 and HIV co-infection identified only for 2 months. Afterward, no more works. That means, it can't spread the virus. Although the trials before showed can reduce HIV viral load in ...
Dozen reports of cancer and infecton in children from eczema drug made by Novartis AG and Astellas Pharma
Recent document released by FDA staff that warning label for eczema drug especially for Elidel from Novartis and Protopic from Astellas should be expanded as dozen cases reported among patients under 16 years old related to cancer and infection since 2004 to 2008. The document were released to FDA advisory meeting ...
Homeopathic remedies for genital herpes eruption HSV-1 and HSV-2
Genital herpes is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) that is generally caused by herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection but can also caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) which usually causes herpes labialis (oralabial herpes) and keratitis. HSV-1 known as the causes of cold sores of lips ...
Reactivation of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) in genital tract
About 1 in 5 Americans infected with genital herpes but only 10% are diagnosed. From recent study showed that virus of Herpes simplex type-2 (HSV-2) may reactive throughout genital tract. This reactivation may occur from multiple sacral ganglia. Christine Johnston, M.D., ...
Oral herpes symptoms and how the virus invade to the nerves
We known sometime the symptom of herpes infection undeclared and may resolve within couple weeks. But, when associated with oral herpes, the virus (both HSV1 and HSV2) will infect to the lip and causing sores or blister around the ...
Causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment for genital herpes
About Herpes Genital herpes is a sexually transmitted disease caused by a herpes virus. The disease is characterized by the formation of fluid-filled, painful blisters in the genital area. Causes and Symptoms Mainly, there are two types of herpes viruses causes genital herpes. A herpes simplex -type ...