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What is HIV? What is AIDS? HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus that attacks the immune system, the body’s natural defense system. Without a strong immune system, the body has trouble fighting off disease. Both the virus and the infection it causes are called HIV. White blood cells are an important part of the [...]

Is this topic for you? This topic provides information about the human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes genital warts and can also cause cervical cancer. If you are looking for information about cervical cell changes or cervical cancer, see the topics Abnormal Pap Test or Cervical Cancer. What is human papillomavirus (HPV)? Human papillomavirus (HPV) is [...]

By Nell Bernstein Courtesy 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. This willed ignorance [...]

Circumcising your baby boy may protect against future sexually transmitted infections. (GETTY IMAGES) 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 [...]

Getty Images 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 [...]

What is HIV? What is AIDS? HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus that attacks the immune system, the body’s natural defense system. Without a strong immune system, the body has trouble fighting off disease. Both the virus and the infection it causes are called HIV. White blood cells are an important part of the [...]

Is this topic for you? This topic provides information about the human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes genital warts and can also cause cervical cancer. If you are looking for information about cervical cell changes or cervical cancer, see the topics Abnormal Pap Test or Cervical Cancer. What is human papillomavirus (HPV)? Human papillomavirus (HPV) is [...]

By Nell Bernstein Courtesy 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. This willed ignorance [...]

Circumcising your baby boy may protect against future sexually transmitted infections. (GETTY IMAGES) 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 [...]

Getty Images 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 [...]