Editor s Note: Dr. Arnold received this honor from the Laboratory Science Policy and Practice Program Office (LSPPPO) in the Office of Surveillance Epidemiology and Laboratory Services (OSELS) at CDC. We asked Dr. Castro some questions about his work: What do you do at CDC? I am a research m ...

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Annual chlamydia screening alone is not enough to stem the tide of new infections among the nations young sexually active women each year according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency recommends that physicians also retest patients 25 and younger three months after tr ...

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Research also found retesting rates although critical are also too low Research also found retesting rates although critical are also too low. By Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY March 13 (HealthDay News) -- Far too few sexually active young women are getting tested for chlamydia an o ...

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About Syphilis Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum. It has often been called the great imitator because so many of the signs and symptoms are indistinguishable from those of other diseases. In the United States health officials reported o ...

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THIS ISNT GOOD: CDC Warns Untreatable Gonorrhea is On the Way. Gonorrhea one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the United States is increasingly showing resistance to one of the last known effective antibiotic treatments leading researchers from the Centers for Disease Cont ...

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Too few young sexually active women in the United States are getting screened for chlamydia according to a new study by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shown that despite federal restrictions on the commercial use of asbestos workers who were exposed to asbestos-containing products on the job decades ago may still be at risk of being diagnosed with mesothelioma or other asbest ...

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CDC says Chlamydia testing rates are "too low across the board."

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ATLANTA March 8 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- To combat the high toll of HIV and AIDS among black women in the United States the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today launched Take Charge. Take the ...

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A new strain of gonorrhea is resistant to one of the last known effective treatments.