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Herpes medication not linked to birth defects
Posted on 30. Aug, 2010 by Doctor.
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Women who took herpes 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. While the finding doesn’t rule out a link between these antivirals and specific types of birth defects, [...]
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U.S. herpes rates remain high
Posted on 28. Mar, 2010 by Doctor.
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. Black women had the highest rate of infection at 48 percent and women were nearly twice likely as men to be infected, [...]