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The latest CDC report in a health survey of 838 teenage girls nationally indicates that one out of every four teens has a sexually transmitted disease. We are living in the age of AIDS, and dangerous and new forms of STDs and herpes, and for some reason the old media seems to imply that what a political representative does with a prostitute is his own private affair. And yet we know from numerous studies that prostitution is one of the significant contributors to the spread of HIV/AIDS, and such studies also show that it is not only a life-threatening concern...

Study Links Increase in Oral Cancers in Men to HPV The rate of oral cancer in men under the age of 45 is rising and a new study links the increase to the human papillomavirus (HPV). Although the overall incidence of head and neck cancers has fallen in the United States and the rate of oropharyngeal (tonsil and base of tongue) cancers is stagnant in females, it appears to be rising in younger men, according to a review published in the Oct. 1 issue of Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. Cancers of the head and neck,...