http://herpes-treatment.info Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:52:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There is no current cure for genital herpes. However, for millions of people with genital herpes, there is a treatment that is proven to dramatically decrease the number of outbreaks a person gets. This latest genital herpes treatment is Valtrex. If you are one of the millions ... http://herpes-treatment.info/2007/08/30/the-latest-genital-herpes-treatments/ While attendees of the yearly arts festival known as Burning Man come from all over the nation and the world, the impact of the costly desert bacchanalia is felt pretty strongly around San Francisco. Many rejoice at the sudden lack of rich hippies and art cars dripping Barbie heads and ... http://herpes-treatment.info/2007/08/23/burning-man-and-safer-sex/ The Grayson Jockey Club has awarded a grant for the study of efficacy of an antiviral drug to fight Equine Herpes Virus Type I (EHV-1). The grant has been made to Dr Lara Maxwell, Assistant Professor of Physiological Sciences at the Oklahoma State Center for Veterinary Health Sciences. “This virus can affect ... http://herpes-treatment.info/2007/08/18/vet-gets-grant-to-study-equine-herpes-treatment/ NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The effectiveness of oral antiviral drugs, commonly used to prevent genital herpes outbreaks in infected patients, has been confirmed by a review of published studies. The researchers evaluated acyclovir, valacyclovir, and famciclovir, sold under the trade names Zovirax, Valtrex and Famvir, respectively, in a “meta-analysis,” a ... http://herpes-treatment.info/2007/08/15/drugs-can-lower-risk-of-genital-herpes-recurrence/ Long-term anti-herpes treatment of women infected with both HIV and HSV2, the virus that causes genital herpes, may reduce the proportion of women with detectable HIV virus in their genital secretions according to the results of a trial in Tanzania presented the International AIDS Society Conference in Sydney. A collaborative group ... http://herpes-treatment.info/2007/08/07/long-term-herpes-treatment-may-reduce-hiv-infectivity/ NEW YORK — Garo Armen froze as colleagues broke the bad news last year about a kidney-cancer vaccine he had championed for over 12 years at a cost of $300 million: The clinical trial had failed. Shares of his tiny biotechnology firm, Antigenics Inc., plunged. His ambition and patients’ hopes ... http://herpes-treatment.info/2007/08/02/cancer-drug-fails-so/ No thanks to sex workers operating without health permits, the incidence of the sexually transmitted disease (STD) herpes is now on the rise in Iloilo. Iloilo news site The News Today reported Wednesday that the unlicensed workers are familiar faces to police but continue to prowl the city streets at night. The ... http://herpes-treatment.info/2007/07/26/report-sex-workers-spread-herpes-in-iloilo/ ‘American Idol’ winner Kelly Clarkson has confessed that she has only ever kissed five boys, because she is scared of catching herpes. The ‘Since you’ve been gone” singer insists that she doesn’t like smooching because it’s too “personal” and she’s always worried about what she might catch from potential suitors. She said ... http://herpes-treatment.info/2007/07/25/kelly-clarkson-scared-of-catching/ Sexually active young people are facing a new scourge that has helped drive the epidemic of sexually transmitted infections to a 10- year high. Cases of genital herpes rose 9 per cent last year, faster than any other sexual disease. Among teenage girls aged 16 to 19 the rise was even ... http://herpes-treatment.info/2007/07/21/herpes-drives-epidemic-of-sexual-diseases-hits-10-year-high/ Wow… I knew that many animals had herpes and if you want to get a herpes free lab animal it costs many times what a ‘normal’ herpes carrying animal does. But wow… Chlamydia in Koalas?! Maybe some of you bio people out there can tell us whether it’s the same ... http://herpes-treatment.info/2007/07/17/eliminating-chlamydia-in-koala/