The CoolMD staff has real difficulty with this one. Read more about caffeine here. There may be a new drug on the horizon for those that suffer from frequent recurrences of genital herpes. Genital herpes is a very common, incurable sexually transmitted disease which causes painful sores on the genitalia. Outbreaks usually last from 7 to 14 days.
Some individuals suffer few or no recurrences.
Others are afflicted with 10 or more recurrences per year. The Pap test can detect cellular changes of cervical cancer as well as certain infectious diseases such as HIV and chlamydia. The birth rate for mothers age 15-19 declined 3 percent to 49.6 births per 1,000 women in 1999. This figure is 20 percent lower than it was in 1991. Teen sexual activity has leveled off compared to the increases shown in the previous decades.