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Your Cancer Answers: How can I prevent HPV? - Santa Maria Times

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Your Cancer Answers: How can I prevent HPV? - Santa Maria Times Your Cancer Answers: How can I prevent HPV? - Santa Maria Times Posted: 31 Dec 2019 09:30 AM PST {{featured_button_text}} Julie Neiggemann Human Papilloma Virus, or HPV, is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. Today, 79 million Americans, most in their late teens and early 20s, are infected with HPV. There are many different types of the HPV. In some cases HPV goes away on its own and does not cause any health problems. However, in cases where it does not go away, HPV it can cause health problems from genital warts to cancer. There are low-risk HPVs, which can have no symptoms but cause warts on the area involved in sexual contact, and high-risk HPVs, which can lead to cancer. Anyone who is sexually active can get HPV, even if your sexual partners have no symptoms or you have had sex with only one person. Though, ...

Facebook is normalizing sharing your healthcare data - Quartz

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Facebook is normalizing sharing your healthcare data - Quartz Facebook is normalizing sharing your healthcare data - Quartz Posted: 31 Dec 2019 04:00 AM PST If you choose to reveal it, Facebook will know the date of your last Pap smear or blood test. The tech giant back in October announced that users in the United States could opt-in to personalized preventive healthcare recommendations and checkup reminders, based on their age and sex. In the weeks that followed, many critics expressed concerns about Facebook entering the healthcare space, given the tech giant's poor track record with safeguarding user privacy. Depending on the user's demographics, the Preventive Health tool now appearing in users' feeds will suggest a laundry list of routine health exams, including mammograms, flu shots, and blood pressure screenings. Users can mark when they've completed procedures, and elect to receive reminders when they're due ...

Your Cancer Answers: How can I prevent HPV? - Santa Maria Times

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Your Cancer Answers: How can I prevent HPV? - Santa Maria Times Your Cancer Answers: How can I prevent HPV? - Santa Maria Times Ask the Doctors: Most anal cancer linked to HPV - Santa Maria Times Call for More HPV-Related Primary Prevention - Medscape HPV Symptoms All Women Should Be Aware Of - Health.com Your Cancer Answers: How can I prevent HPV? - Santa Maria Times Posted: 31 Dec 2019 09:30 AM PST {{featured_button_text}} Julie Neiggemann Human Papilloma Virus, or HPV, is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. Today, 79 million Americans, most in their late teens and early 20s, are infected with HPV. There are many different types of the HPV. In some cases HPV goes away on its own and does not cause any health problems. However, in cases where it does not go away, HPV it can cause health problems from genital warts to cancer. There are low-risk HPV...