sexually transmitted diseases
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Planned Parenthood offers a range of services, including abortions, birth control, cancer screenings and testings for sexually transmitted diseases.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a speech Monday at a medical conference on sexually transmitted diseases.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2022
Right now, there is no coordinated national response, as there is for sexually transmitted diseases or COVID-19, to tick-borne disease in the U.S.
From Salon • Jan. 19, 2022
Public health departments later delivered vaccines to halt diseases such as smallpox and polio, upgraded water systems to limit typhoid and cholera, curbed sexually transmitted diseases and helped guarantee the safety of food in restaurants.
From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2021
John Zenilman of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, an expert on sexually transmitted diseases, has another explanation: the breakdown of medical services in the city’s poorest neighborhoods.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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