Herpes

The US government said Tuesday it is taking steps to remove from the market a host of online products that promise to cure HIV, herpes, chlamydia and other sexually transmitted diseases.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with genital herpes can still be contagious even if they don't have symptoms, according to a study that raises the question of whether all adults should be screened for the disease.

Genital herpes can be transmitted even if a person has no symptoms, suggesting a high risk of transmission from people with unrecognized infections of herpes simplex 2, researchers said on Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who took medication to treat herpes infections during pregnancy weren't more likely to have a baby with birth defects than women who didn't take these drugs in a study of over 800,000 babies born in Denmark.

South African research that helped produce a promising anti-AIDS gel will change the nature of the fight against the disease, the head of the university that pioneered the research said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday.

A widely used treatment for the herpes virus does not reduce the risk of transmission of HIV-AIDS, according to a medical study published Wednesday after a five-year trial.

French researchers find new strain of HIV virus in African woman who moved to Paris. A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of human immunodeficiency virus and appears to be closely related to a form of simian virus recently discovered in wild gorillas, researchers report in Monday's edition of the journal Nature Medicine.

French researchers find new strain of HIV virus in African woman who moved to Paris. A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Using condoms consistently can help prevent people from contracting genital herpes, new research in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows.

Men who have been circumcised have a significantly reduced risk of contracting genital herpes or papillomavirus infections, data published Wednesday show.