Herpes Zoster: Are we heading for a shingles epidemic?

If you’re aged over sixteen, you may well remember having chickenpox as a child. Or maybe you remember an older sibling having the disease.

Before 1995, chickenpox was considered a minor, if somewhat distressing disease. Most children caught it at some stage and made a full and lasting recovery.

Then, in 1995, a vaccine [...]

Herpes & Sex: being over fifty does NOT protect you from herpes or STIs!

Free of the risk of pregnancy and perhaps without a permanent partner, it’s easy just to get into the habit of unprotected sex. But age does not make anyone immune from the risk of herpes and other sexually transmitted diseases. Urology departments are reporting a huge increase in STIs among newly-liberated over 50s [...]

Herpes, STDs and Teenage Girls

Recent research published by Pediatrics shows nearly 25 percent of sexually active teenage girls in the US to be infected with at least one sexually transmitted infection (SDI) [...]