World AIDS Day: calls for better HIV testing
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Hold the front page: porn stars get STIs
Here’s a surprise: rates of sexually-transmitted diseases are high among performers in the adult film industry.
Disease clusters: chasing after shadows
Clusters of anything – suicides, birth defects, diseases – are a magnet to journalists.
Stumped by claims of "accurate" diagnosis
Radio 4’s Today programme and at least two newspapers, the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, reported news earlier this week from the Institute of Psychiatry in London o
Better surveillance of HIV and hepatitis long overdue
Is the UK doing enough to identify and treat infections by HIV and hepatitis? The evidence suggests that it is not, and that complacency in the face of these threats is unjustified.
Hysteria on STIs is overdone
Sex sells papers, so today’s made hay with new figures for sexually-transmitted diseases. “Drunk ladettes fuel a boom in STIs” was the Daily Express headline.
