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<p>Reva M. Trammell won't have to go far to see the criminals she battled in Richmond's South Side.</p> <p>The confrontational crime-fighter has landed a job at the city jail less than three months after losing her City Council seat.</p> <p>Richmond Sheriff Michelle B. Mitchell has hired Trammell as a community-relations coordinator. She starts Tuesday.</p>

Although Florida's health clinics treat thousands of patients for sexually transmitted diseases each year, state statistics show that thousands more are never even tested. A new study aims to track down the cause of this vexing trend by sending investigators into the affected communities. "[Clinics] were noticing a decrease in the number of cases being diagnosed, so they were concerned about where those people are going and if they are being seen or not being seen," said UF associate professor of nursing Sharleen Simpson, who is conducting the study for the Florida Department of Health. For the past year, Simpson...

Wednesday, November 06, 2002, 12:00 a.m. PacificWhat's 'real' sex? Kids narrow definition, put themselves at risk It's a taboo topic, but one that parents, educators and health-care providers have been discussing quietly for the past couple of years and with a greater degree of urgency. Many teenagers — and even children as young as middle school — are having oral sex. Some of them don't think of it as real sex. And many are unaware that it can be dangerous. Things every teen — and parent — should know • While the risk of contracting most sexually transmitted diseases...

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_10158.html Oral sex isn't safe sex, especially for women, Montreal conference told Canadian Press Thursday, October 31, 2002 MONTREAL (CP) - Engaging in oral sex doesn't mean practising safe sex - and that's especially true for women, a Montreal public-health physician warned Thursday at a national conference. Dr. Marc Steben, an expert on infectious diseases, said that women are at heightened risk of contracting the human papilloma virus through oral sex. There are different strains of the virus, HPV for short, and they are considered the most common of sexually transmitted diseases. One strain causes genital warts, while HPV 16...

Elderly Playboy Offers Riches to Final Bedmate Tue Oct 29,12:39 PM ET By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - Aging Berlin playboy Rolf Eden wants to go out with a bang. Reuters Photo Eden, a wealthy 72-year-old disco magnate, received a huge worldwide response to an offer to leave part of his fortune to the last woman he has sex with, provided he dies in her arms after a "final, glorious orgasm." An ever-smiling man with blond hair and a dark tan, Eden told Reuters that he stays fit thanks to a rotating array of seven or eight young women between...

Multiple sclerosis, a common disease of the central nervous system, could be sexually transmitted, a British scientist said Thursday. Dr. Christopher Hawkes, of London's Institute of Neurology, said his analysis of published data on the illness that affects about a million people worldwide, supports the hypothesis. Experts however criticized his report saying there was no evidence to support it. "I propose that multiple sclerosis (MS) is a sexually transmitted infection acquired principally during adolescence and mainly from infected but not necessarily symptomatic males," he said in a report in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. Hawkes said it may not...

LOS ANGELES -- Ten years after playing the saxophone on MTV in a defining moment of his 1992 campaign for president, Bill Clinton is returning to the cable music channel to discuss the global AIDS epidemic. Clinton will be one of several panelists taking questions from an audience of young adults from more than 25 countries during an hour-long program to be taped July 11 in Barcelona, Spain, the network, a unit of Viacom Inc., said on Wednesday. The MTV special, titled Staying Alive: A Global Forum on HIV/AIDS, will be telecast starting July 12 on more than 30 MTV...