The psychosocial impact of STIs is often overlooked. The affected persons almost always experience embarrassment and varying degrees of self-depreciation, depression, and anxiety. For this reason, the ...

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All 28 full-time employees, along with 10 fellows, were cut from the CDC's STD Laboratory Reference and Research Branch, which is housed in the agency's Division of STD Prevention. One of its most ...

In the CDC's STD testing lab, one official said that normally around 12,000 samples are processed and analyzed by the agency's scientists every year. The lab was run by around 30 to 35 full-time ...

Dozens of other programs throughout the CDC’s national centers for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention; Environmental Health ...

Nick Carter's Sexual Assault Accuser's Anti-SLAPP Motion Against Star Denied Again Following Appeal Penly alleges that Carter “infected plaintiff with various sexually transmitted diseases ...

It’s only a wee prison sentence. A Texas janitor who spread sexually transmitted diseases to more than a dozen office workers by peeing in their water bottles and a cooler was let off with a ...

Houston Police Department A Texas man who infected multiple employees at a Houston medical office with sexually transmitted diseases after peeing in their drinking water was sentenced to six years ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Winnipeg Jets forward Nikolaj Ehlers left Saturday night’s game at Chicago after he backed into an official in the second period. Ehlers had to be helped off the ice after he ...