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Study: Men with Erectile Dysfunction Pose Higher STD Threat

(July 6) -- Impotence and immunity are not synonymous -- and someone might want to inform the Viagra-poppers of America. U.S. men taking medication to treat erectile dysfunction are being diagnosed with twice as many sexually transmitted diseases as their non-flaccid peers. That's the sobering conclusion of a new study,...

Gonorrhea Close to Gaining Superbug Status

(March 30) -- Unless medical experts devise a new way to treat it, gonorrhea -- the world's second most common sexually transmitted infection, after chlamydia -- will soon become a drug-resistant superbug. "This is a very clever bacteria. If this problem isn't addressed, there is a real possibility that gonorrhea will...