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<ARTICLE ID="613500" URL="/news/u.s.-syphilis-rate-grows-for-7th-year-in-row-articleid=613500.html" POSTING_DATE="2008-03-12" POSTING_TIME="2009-03-12" ARCHIVE_DATE="1970-01-01">
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<HEADLINE><![CDATA[U.S. Syphilis Rate Grows for 7th Year in Row]]></HEADLINE>
<BLURB><![CDATA[Increase largely driven by new cases among gay, bisexual men, CDC reports]]></BLURB>
<BYLINE><![CDATA[<b>By Steven Reinberg</b><br><i>HealthDay Reporter</i>]]></BYLINE>
<BODY><![CDATA[WEDNESDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- For the seventh year in a row, rates of syphilis infection have increased in the United States, driven largely by cases among gay and bisexual men,...]]></BODY>
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<SOURCE><![CDATA[SOURCES: March 12, 2008, teleconference with Hillard Weinstock, M.D., and John Douglas, director, both with the Division of STD Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta]]></SOURCE>
<FEATURE_BLURB><![CDATA[Increase largely driven by new cases among gay, bisexual men, CDC reports.]]></FEATURE_BLURB>
<FEATURE_IMAGE><![CDATA[http://www.healthday.com/images/editorial/45079.jpg]]></FEATURE_IMAGE>
<COPYRIGHT><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2008 <a href="http://www.healthday.com/" target="_new">ScoutNews, LLC</a>. All rights reserved.]]></COPYRIGHT>
</ARTICLE>

<ARTICLE ID="611682" URL="/news/columbus-carried-syphilis-from-new-world-to-europe,-study-suggests-articleid=611682.html" POSTING_DATE="2008-01-14" POSTING_TIME="2009-01-11" ARCHIVE_DATE="1970-01-01">
<NEWS_TYPE>News</NEWS_TYPE>
<HEADLINE><![CDATA[Columbus Carried Syphilis From New World to Europe, Study Suggests]]></HEADLINE>
<BLURB><![CDATA[Genetic testing sees link to similar disease found in South America]]></BLURB>
<BYLINE><![CDATA[<b>By Randy Dotinga</b><br><i>HealthDay Reporter</i>]]></BYLINE>
<BODY><![CDATA[MONDAY, Jan. 14 (HealthDay News) -- A new analysis of the genetics of syphilis provides support for the theory that the disease hitched a ride with Christopher Columbus from the New World...]]></BODY>
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<SOURCE><![CDATA[SOURCES: Kristin Harper, graduate student, Emory University, Atlanta;  Bruce Rothschild, M.D., professor of medicine, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown; Jan. 16, 2008, <i>Public Library of Science Neglected Tropical Diseases</i>, online]]></SOURCE>
<FEATURE_BLURB><![CDATA[Genetic testing sees link to similar disease found in South America.]]></FEATURE_BLURB>
<FEATURE_IMAGE><![CDATA[http://www.healthday.com/images/editorial/lab_18108.jpg]]></FEATURE_IMAGE>
<COPYRIGHT><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2008 <a href="http://www.healthday.com/" target="_new">ScoutNews, LLC</a>. All rights reserved.]]></COPYRIGHT>
</ARTICLE>

<ARTICLE ID="610033" URL="/news/u.s.-chlamydia-infections-hit-all-time-high-articleid=610033.html" POSTING_DATE="2007-11-13" POSTING_TIME="2008-11-13" ARCHIVE_DATE="1970-01-01">
<NEWS_TYPE>News</NEWS_TYPE>
<HEADLINE><![CDATA[U.S. Chlamydia Infections Hit All-Time High]]></HEADLINE>
<BLURB><![CDATA[Million-plus cases reported, as gonorrhea, syphilis rates rise for 2nd year in a row, CDC says]]></BLURB>
<BYLINE><![CDATA[<b>By Steven Reinberg</b><br><i>HealthDay Reporter</i>]]></BYLINE>
<BODY><![CDATA[TUESDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News)  -- The number of Americans newly infected with a sexually transmitted disease (STD) continues to rise, federal health officials reported Tuesday, with one...]]></BODY>
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<SOURCE><![CDATA[SOURCES: Nov. 13, 2007, teleconference with John M. Douglas Jr., M.D., director, Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention; Stuart Berman, M.D., chief, Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch in the Division of STD Prevention, both U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; David Katz, M.D., M.P.H., director, Prevention Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.]]></SOURCE>
<FEATURE_BLURB><![CDATA[Million-plus cases reported, as gonorrhea, syphilis rates rise for 2nd year in a row, CDC says.]]></FEATURE_BLURB>
<FEATURE_IMAGE><![CDATA[http://www.healthday.com/images/editorial/STDS.jpg]]></FEATURE_IMAGE>
<COPYRIGHT><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2007 <a href="http://www.healthday.com/" target="_new">ScoutNews, LLC</a>. All rights reserved.]]></COPYRIGHT>
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<ARTICLE ID="600825" URL="/news/syphilis-resurgent-in-china-articleid=600825.html" POSTING_DATE="2007-01-12" POSTING_TIME="2008-01-09" ARCHIVE_DATE="1970-01-01">
<NEWS_TYPE>News</NEWS_TYPE>
<HEADLINE><![CDATA[Syphilis Resurgent in China]]></HEADLINE>
<BLURB><![CDATA[Once virtually eliminated, epidemic is driven by economic reforms, open borders, study says]]></BLURB>
<BYLINE><![CDATA[]]></BYLINE>
<BODY><![CDATA[FRIDAY, Jan. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Syphilis was all but eliminated in China from 1960 to 1980 but has reappeared and become a rapidly increasing epidemic that requires urgent intervention,...]]></BODY>
<ATTRIBUTION><![CDATA[-- Robert Preidt]]></ATTRIBUTION>
<SOURCE><![CDATA[SOURCE: University of North Carolina School of Medicine, news release, Jan. 11, 2007]]></SOURCE>
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<COPYRIGHT><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2007 <a href="http://www.healthday.com/" target="_new">ScoutNews, LLC</a>. All rights reserved.]]></COPYRIGHT>
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<ARTICLE ID="616904" URL="/news/health-tip-trying-pregnancy-again-articleid=616904.html" POSTING_DATE="2008-07-04" POSTING_TIME="2009-06-25" ARCHIVE_DATE="1970-01-01">
<NEWS_TYPE>News</NEWS_TYPE>
<HEADLINE><![CDATA[Health Tip: Trying Pregnancy Again]]></HEADLINE>
<BLURB><![CDATA[After a miscarriage

]]></BLURB>
<BYLINE><![CDATA[]]></BYLINE>
<BODY><![CDATA[ (HealthDay News) -- Trying to get pregnant again after a miscarriage can be fraught with a host of emotional and physical concerns.

Here are suggestions when considering  another...]]></BODY>
<ATTRIBUTION><![CDATA[-- Diana Kohnle]]></ATTRIBUTION>
<SOURCE><![CDATA[]]></SOURCE>
<FEATURE_BLURB><![CDATA[]]></FEATURE_BLURB>
<FEATURE_IMAGE><![CDATA[]]></FEATURE_IMAGE>
<COPYRIGHT><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2008 <a href="http://www.healthday.com/" target="_new">ScoutNews, LLC</a>. All rights reserved.]]></COPYRIGHT>
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