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Whether you like Angelina Jolie or not, most women desire to have something that she has.  Maybe you want to have arms like her, with or without the tattoos.  Maybe you want her fortune and fame.  Or maybe you want to be married to Brad Pitt.  All of those are desirable attributes of Angelina Jolie.  There is one thing she has that most women do NOT want to have and that is her genes, her DNA, not her ...

Vitamin D seems to be the newest trend in medicine and research.  Vitamin D deficiency has been on an increase, likely due to all of the recommendations of wearing sunscreen for skin cancer prevention.  However; there is a difference between getting your lab values drawn in the end of the winter compared to the end of the summer, despite sunscreen usage.  Only 10 minutes of sun exposure daily without sunscreen is thought to be sufficient in preventing deficiency.
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When do I start coming to the Gynecologist?
 
This is a tough question for most people.  To the general population, annual well-woman exams are thought of as just coming in for a pap smear.  The recommendations for cervical cancer screening are to start pap smears when a patient is 21 years old.  However, there is much more performed at the well-woman exam aside from pap smears. 
 
Many ...

HPV Types 6 and 11… leading to genital warts.

As we have discussed in the two previous blog entries, HPV is a cutaneous virus, or a skin-to-skin virus that is predominately transmitted through sexual contact via vaginal/penile penetration, digital penetration, oral sex, and shared devices.  Although sexual contact is the primary route of transmission, also as mentioned previously there are studies that show the HPV virus may be spread in other ways. 

HPV types 6 and ...

A vaccine to prevent Cancer… this is the answer!!!

Accurate information about Gardasil® vaccine.

There are two vaccinations that are FDA approved for the immunization against HPV.  One is Cervarix® and the other is Gardasil®.  The main difference between the two is that Gardasil® protects against the two most aggressive strains of HPV that lead to cervical cancer (Types 16 and 18) as well as provides protection against the two most common strains that ...

This blog entry is 1 in a series of 3 in relation to HPV.  The first article will compile general information about HPV, the transmission of HPV, debunking myths, and the progression of HPV to cervical cancer.  The second blog entry focusing on prevention with the Gardasil® vaccine and the third blog will address genital warts from HPV 6 and 11.

The Truth about HPV

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is virus that is the cause ...