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   <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 13:20:12 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>May 18, Home Herpes Tests</title>
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    <description>Home herpes tests can offer confidentiality that no other tests can. They make it possible to get tested anonymously and receive a herpes diagnosis at home. Learn how accurate these tests are, which herpes testing solution to choose and why.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 13:20:11 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>May 7, STD tests and testing</title>
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    <description>STD tests may become necessary if you have unusual symptoms near your genitals or if  you have been recently diagnoses with one STD...</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 15:19:33 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>May 7, Herpes Testing and Herpes Tests</title>
    <link>http://www.best-herpes-treatments.com/herpes-testing.html</link>
    <description>Herpes testing has become more and more accurate and affordable. If you have had herpes like symptoms, you should consider testing for herpes. Learn more now.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 15:13:37 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Apr 30, Genital Herpes Testing?</title>
    <link>http://www.best-herpes-treatments.com/genital-herpes-testing.html</link>
    <description>Genital herpes testing is necessary if you think you might have been infected or have unexplained herpes like symptoms.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:08:45 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Apr 30, Genital Herpes Blood Test, Testing and Diagnosis</title>
    <link>http://www.best-herpes-treatments.com/genital-herpes-blood-test.html</link>
    <description>A genital herpes blood test is recommended if you think you might have been infected or have unexplained genital herpes like symptoms. Learn more about genital herpes testing here...</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:04:32 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Apr 30, PCR Herpes Test, Testing and Diagnosis</title>
    <link>http://www.best-herpes-treatments.com/PCR-herpes-test.html</link>
    <description>PCR herpes test give a very accurate results. You may want to use if you think you might have been infected or have unexplained herpes like symptoms.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:53:13 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Apr 30, Herpes Blood Test, diagnosis and testing</title>
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    <description>A herpes blood test can be extremely accurate but which one should use, when and what to expect...</description>
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    <title>Mar 3, Gardiasil withdrawn from Spanish Market by Local Authorities</title>
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    <description>Two teenage girls were hospitalized shortly after receiving HPV vaccine in Spain. They were in stable condition when this information was first released. 

However, these incidents decided Spanish health authorities to withdraw Gardiasil from the Spanish market. They ceased a vaccination campaign they had previously launched throughout Spain shortly after. 

The new HPV vaccine had become available in Spain in 2006.

(Source: AFP)</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:23:13 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Mar 3, Herpes Pain Relief</title>
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    <description>Herpes pain relief was almost impossible to find. Pain killer didn&#39;t help at all and most creams where a waste of time until I&#39;ve found organic silica gel.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:29:03 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Feb 11, Why People with Herpes Should Avoid Drinking Soda</title>
    <link>http://www.best-herpes-treatments.com/Best-herpes-treatments-blog.html</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;I recommend in my book  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.herpes-wise.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Herpes Wise&lt;/a&gt; to reduce if not stop drinking any type of soda drinks. I believe  it causes too many problems in the body for it to stay healthy. People with herpes  have to take care of themselves a little bit more than other people. That&#39;s why I am  very happy that doctor Mercola took the time to comment on an article that  enumerated the adverse effects of soda drinks. Some of them are impaired  digestion and liver damage. Poor digestion leads to a weakened immune system in  the long run and is a big obstacle to keeping you outbreak free for life.&lt;br /&gt;
You can take a look at  the article at &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/02/10/10-Diseases-Linked-To-Soda.aspx&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/02/10/10-Diseases-Linked-To-Soda.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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    <title>Feb 3, Life Sciences Discovery Fund Awards cash to Support New Herpes Vaccine Program</title>
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    <description>Washington Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF) has awarded nearly $4.7 million to launch Washington Vaccine Alliance (WAVA) supporting research into herpes vaccine. During the start-up phase, WAVA core operations will function within the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

WAVA is a consortium of seven not-for-profit research institutions, focused on providing the skills and apparatus necessary to develop, test and deploy new or improved vaccines for many of the world&#39;s most challenging diseases, including herpes. 

Its structure will allow member organizations more effectively to develop and share critical skills and facilities, and partner with commercial pharmaceutical and biotech companies in herpes vaccine development and deployment.

&quot;The successful development and deployment of even one vaccine will have a significant impact on the health of the citizens and will provide a very cost-effective intervention to reduce overall health care costs.&quot; said Larry Corey, M.D., principal investigator of the LSDF-funded project and co-director of the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute at the Hutchinson Center.

The LSDF award provides critical funding to complete the initial phases of three new vaccine projects, including the herpes vaccine and the ability to secure funding for the rest of the development process. The herpes vaccine projects aim is to develop and produce a vaccine for preliminary clinical trials. 

WAVA will create several core service centers, critical to bringing vaccines to market: discovery, development, production and deployment. These services will be extremely cost effective by taking advantage of existing expertise and sharing resources across the larger portfolio of vaccine projects. Member organizations will contract with each other to speed the testing and development process and The Hutchinson Center will oversee informatics and clinical trials design and management.

&quot;Washington State has accumulated a critical mass of expertise in crucial areas necessary for the successful identification and development of vaccines. The creation of WAVA provides the catalyst to allow each member to create new programs that build upon the substantial existing successes,&quot; said King Holmes, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the University of Washingtons Department of Global Health.
The portfolio of vaccine projects for WAVA covers major infectious diseases that await the development of effective and affordable vaccines. These include HIV, sexually transmitted infections such as genital herpes, hepatitis C, influenza, diarrheal diseases (especially of infants and children), pneumonia in the elderly and the pandemic infections of tuberculosis and malaria.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:10:44 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Jan 26, Activate to Exterminate is the new mantra for a Herpes Cure</title>
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    <description>We know by now how those painful and unsightly herpes cold sores around the mouth are caused by the herpes simplex virus type one (HSV-1). Some of us are lucky enough to be able to keep them at bay for long periods of time - and then some trigger like a fever, too much sunlight or stress in our lives causes them to come back all over again to give us more grief.

That is because even when the herpes virus isnt actively punishing us with those horrid cold sores, it is still there, lurking in the depths where it can lay dormant sometimes for years.

Now professor Bryan Cullen, professor of molecular genetics and microbiology at Duke University, Durham NC has published findings which may go some way to finding that elusive cure for herpes.  The principle is this:  in order to kill the herpes virus, you must first activate it.

During non-active phases, the herpes HSV1 virus is present in the nervous system but does not reproduce itself.  The same principle applies to the genitally transmitted herpes HSV2 virus and other latent viruses including the chickenpox virus.  &quot;Inactive virus is completely untouchable by any treatment we have. Unless you activate the virus, you can&#39;t kill it,&quot; says Professor Cullen.

When the virus is in its dormant phase it does not reproduce, and produces only one molecular product, called LAT RNA, which had always proved something of a mystery to scientists.  Professor Cullens research has shown that LAT RNA is processed into smaller strands known as micro RNAs.  These micro RNAs prevent the virus from reproducing itself until such time as a major stress in the patient causes the herpes virus to start its manufacturing process over again.

Professor Cullen and his team are currently testing a new drug which, if successful, will kick start the herpes virus by binding the micro RNAs.  This will cause the herpes virus to reproduce.  The patient would then be treated with the drug acyclovir which effectively kills replicating HSV1 viruses.

&quot;In principle, you could activate and then kill all of the virus in a patient. This would completely cure a person, and you would never get another cold sore. said Professor Cullen.</description>
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    <title>Jan 16, Herpes and heterosexual HIV infection &amp;ndash; No direct link</title>
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  Researchers at Chicago&amp;rsquo;s Feinberg School of Medicine have debunked the myth that the HIV virus infects women only via areas of broken or damaged skin, such as herpes sores.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Until recently it had been assumed that the virus sought out herpes damaged skin in order to reach the immune system cells deeper in the tissue.  Some scientists had even thought the normal (i.e. uninfected with herpes) lining of the vaginal tract offered protection from HIV infection during intercourse, aggravating an unpleasant stigma for herpes sufferers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But Thomas Hope, Professor of cell and molecular biology at Northwestern University now admits: &amp;ldquo;Normal skin is vulnerable.&amp;rdquo;  Professor Hope and others developed a new method of observing HIV by introducing a strain of the virus carrying fluorescent, light-activated tracers into vaginal tissue samples in a laboratory environment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Scientists who hitherto had little understanding of how HIV infected women during intercourse were able to observe under the microscope how the virus was able quickly to penetrate the genital skin to reach immune cells.  Professor Hope said the study indicated that the virus targets areas of skin which have recently shed skin cells and cast doubt on the previous theory that the virus required damaged or broken skin to penetrate.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He added that this could explain why a clinical trial in Africa using a diaphragm to block the cervix produced no reduction in HIV transmission and also why studies of drugs designed to prevent lesions in genital herpes had proved ineffective.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Emphasizing how this study underlines the need for vaccine treatments to prevent HIV infection, Professor Hope added: &amp;ldquo;People need to remember that they are vulnerable.  The sad part is if people just used a condom, we wouldn&amp;rsquo;t have this problem.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the United States, HIV continues to be predominantly passed via male homosexual activity.  Women account for 26 percent of all new HIV cases in the USA, according to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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    <title>Dec 5, A baby was killed by a cold sore in the UK</title>
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    <description>A newborn baby girl came in contact with oral herpes while her mother was having a first oral herpes infection and kissed her. The little girl who had not developed her immune system and had not received herpes antigen from her mom soon died after that. 
It is assessed that about 90 of the adult population has oral herpes. Therefore this case is quite uncommon but it sadly reminds us that we have to pay extra attention to newborn babies and that cold sores and herpes even though harmless to most healthy adults can become deadly to very young infants.

Dr. Herbert Kaufman, Boyd Professor of Ophthalmology at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans found that 98 of the participants of his study did have herpes simplex virus type I (HSV-1) DNA in their tears and saliva at least once during the course of the 30-day study. None of these participants had shown any signs or symptoms of oral herpes. This study used the most up-to-date techniques for herpes diagnosis. Therefore its finding can be considered as full proof that almost all adult population has oral herpes whether they are aware of it or not. This is why it is really important to remember this while dealing with newborn babies.</description>
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    <title>Nov 28, Herpes Cure : Good News !</title>
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    <description>Cellectis (http://www.cellectis.com/applications.php) and Genomic Visio receive a 10 million euro loan to develop a revolutionary herpes cure.
Celletics specializes in genome engineering and Genomic vision in molecular diagnosis. Together, they will work on project ACTIVE, to see how they can use celletic findings to cure herpes even at dormant stage by removing herpes genome from host cells with a revolutionary new kind of antiviral agents.

If they succeed, herpes could become just a bad memory for all humanity. This is the most promising project I know of because it could not only prevent herpes from shedding or replicating but entirely remove herpes from one&#39;s body. I know from my numerous contacts with people with herpes that this is the kind of cure they&#39;re all hoping for.</description>
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    <title>Oct 28, 28 of Women Will Get Genital Herpes by the Age of 49</title>
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    <description>According to the World Health Organization (WHO), genital herpes may infect 28 of all women worldwide by the time they reach 45.&lt;br/&gt;
This percentage varies according to countries and reaches 70 in some areas of sub- Saharan Africa.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
The WHO reports that women are at greater risk of catching herpes than men.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
Unfortunately, these findings confirm the Worldwide trends that the WHO had found in 2003. They had then reported that &lt;i&gt; &quot;The total number of people aged 1549 years who were living with HSV-2 infection worldwide in 2003 is estimated to be &lt;b&gt;536 million&lt;/b&gt;, while the total number of people who were newly infected with HSV-2 in 2003 is estimated to be 23.6 million. While the estimates are limited by poor availability of data, general trends are evident. For example, more women than men were infected, and the number infected increased with age. Although prevalence varied substantially by region, predicted prevalence was mostly higher in developing regions than developed regions.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;

http://www.who.int/en/</description>
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    <title>May 22, Join Nathalie&#39;s Free Conference Call about Herpes</title>
    <link>http://www.best-herpes-treatments.com/Best-herpes-treatments-blog.html#Join-Nathalie&#39;s-Free-Conference-Call-about-Herpes</link>
    <description>I will be holding a phone conference this Friday. This is a one time event.

I will reply to a lot of questions that my readers have asked me. I will cover everything from herpes transmission to herpes cure, herpes prevention and all issues concerning herpes and genital herpes.

Get more info now at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.herpes-antidote.com/teleseminar-subscribe.html&quot;&gt;http://www.herpes-antidote.com/teleseminar-subscribe.html&lt;/a&gt; 

or join the conversation at &lt;a href=&quot;http://herpes-antidote.com/secret/&quot;&gt;http://herpes-antidote.com/secret/&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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    <title>May 13, Seeking More American Volunteers To Test a New Herpes Drug</title>
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    <description>If you want to help science find new herpes drugs or vaccine, you should 
participate in a clinical study. 

That&#39;s why I want to share with you a great website which gathers all information on ongoing herpes research and clinical studies in the US.

I have created a link for you where you can see all current or recent herpes  clinical studies. On the left side of the page you can see if these studies are still recruiting.

&lt;a href=&quot;http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=herpes&quot; title=&quot;herpes research&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HSV, Herpes Clinical Studies&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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    <title>May 9, Seeking Volunteers To Test a New Herpes Drug</title>
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    <description>Asha, the American Social Health Association is recruiting volunteers to test a new herpes drug.
You can find further information at 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ashastd.org/trial.cfm#WA&quot;&gt;http://www.ashastd.org/trial.cfm#WA&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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    <title>May 8, More HPV Vaccine Deaths On the Way?</title>
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    <description>Here is an excerpt of Dr Mercola&#39;s comment about the use of male HPV vaccine as a way to prevent cancer. 
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   * About 90 percent of all HPV infections go away on their own within two years.
   * A JAMA study found that just 2 percent of the patients in the study were infected by the kinds of HPV that put them at high-risk for developing cervical cancer.
    * A little more than 3 percent were infected with the types of HPV that Gardasil was concocted to prevent.
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I find it very interesting that Gardiasil which may have caused deaths to several little girls (read my blog post below) was actually useful to only 3 percent of them.

Make sure to read Dr Mercola&#39;s comment below the small article that precedes it. It really is an eye opener.</description>
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    <title>Apr 21, No More Persecution against People with Herpes. This Time This Is Too Much!</title>
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    <description>A sadistic and resentful ex-boyfriend distributed pornographic fliers displaying his ex having sex with disease carrier written across because he knew she had herpes.

He just couldn&#39;t handle being dumped or so it seemed so he started faxing these fliers at his ex girlfriend workplace and outside her son&#39;s middle school as revenge. He&#39;s now being prosecuted for giving that information out. I hope he goes to jail and gets to pay a huge fee.

What saddens me most is that he didn&#39;t care for her ex poor son who has been traumatized for seeing his mother displayed like that. Who thinks about the kids? It seems not enough people. I think CBS coverage of the story is pathetic and fails to see the trial stakes.
You can read it here
&lt;a href=&quot;http://cbs4.com/local/Hance.Adams.broward.2.701538.html&quot;&gt;http://cbs4.com/local/Hance.Adams.broward.2.701538.html
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I wonder if people with herpes will have to create their own lobby to get the respect and privacy they deserve.</description>
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    <title>Apr 15, Gardasil vaccine! Could It Kill Your Daughter Too?</title>
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    <description>Judicial watch whose goal is to protect justice and US citizens has filed a complaint against the FDA after receiving eight death reports related to the new HPV vaccine. This along with the 1,824 adverse reaction reports makes it urgent to disclose this information to the public.

I must say I was really excited about this new led free vaccine. I felt it was very promising.

I am shocked, disappointed and feel deeply saddened by the whole situation. 

This took place in 2007 and I haven&#39;t found any updates on the story yet but I felt I should let you know anyway.

You can read more at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.judicialwatch.org/6428.shtml&quot;&gt;http://www.judicialwatch.org/6428.shtml&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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    <title>Apr 11, Shocking Truths  About GlaxoSmithKline Marketing Tactics</title>
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    <description>You may start to think that I hate pharmaceutical companies and that I just want to say nasty things about them. 
I don&#39;t. They once saved my life and this is not something you can easily forget. However I want them to loose their trustworthy Godlike reputation. My mother and maybe you or your relatives usually take the words of their doctors or pharmaceutical companies as absolute truths. I often hear my mom say &quot;They said it so it&#39;s true no questions about it.&quot; It may have been true when she grew  up but it has now become more and more obvious that times have changed. Dr Mercola and the Washington Post give a more brutal but honest report of the situation.

Here is a excerpt from Dr Mercola&#39;s blog who is referring to a Washington Post article. 

&quot;In 1950, George Merck, president of the company founded by his father and bearing his name, said, &quot;We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits.&quot;

If that was ever true, it is certainly not true now. Drug companies are hugely profitable enterprises, and they spent more on political lobbying than any other industry between 1998 and 2004. The transformation is owed in large measure to blockbuster drugs, meaning any medication that generates more than $1 billion in sales annually.

It might have begun with the selling of Zantac, an anti-ulcer drug that came on the market in 1983. GlaxoSmithKline priced it more expensively than the competitor drug Tagamet, to imply that it was superior. In reality, Zantac was chemically almost identical to Tagamet and no more effective. &quot;

GlaxoSmithKline manufactures and promotes 2 herpes drugs under the brand names of Zovirax and Valtrex. One is no longer patented whereas the other is. Could the same thing be happening with them? I gave a precise answer to that question in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.herpes-wise.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Herpes Wise &lt;/a&gt; a book helping people with genital herpes more than 3 years ago. Answers are available to those who want to take a closer look rather than be hypnotized by expensive publicity campaigns.


You can read the 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/03/AR2008040303377.html?nav=rss_health&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Washington Post article  here&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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    <title>Apr 6, Doctors Get Rewarded For Pushing Drugs</title>
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    <description>Hey Doc! Want a new swimming pool for summer? Well if you sell my drug 3 times more than you normally do in the next 3 months, I&#39;ll drop you a little bonus.

I&#39;m sure this conversation seems absurd. How could doctors compromise the health of their patients to get financial reward?

Well, it happens and more often than you can imagine. A former Eli Lilly Rep broke the silent in front of a Congressional committee last month. He explained how he was trained to wine and dine doctors and use sexual tension to make a sale. 
Makes me wonder which other pharmaceutical companies would train their reps to do the same? Anyway, this testimonial hurts their reputation once more.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4438095&amp;page=1</description>
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    <title>Apr 4, A Real Curative Herpes Vaccine Could Be On Its Way!</title>
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    <description>This is the first time that a useful vaccine for herpes is being researched. By useful, I mean a vaccine that has the potential to cure herpes, not just prevent it.

Vical, Inc. has been awarded a $2 million Phase II small business technology transfer grant from the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases department from the National Institutes of Health.

The grant is to fund an ongoing development of Vical&#39;s plasmid DNA vaccine against Herpes simplex virus type 2.  

Research is being conducted at the University of Washington,a world-renowned leader in herpes research and the University of Texas. 

The goal of the study is to see if they can reduce or eliminate recurrent herpes viral flare-ups, shedding and transmission.

This would mean the end of herpes pandemic and a real breakthrough for humanity who has been trying to cure herpes since the Greek era.

You can enroll here 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://depts.washington.edu/herpes/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://depts.washington.edu/herpes/&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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    <title>Mar 28, Test for 8 herpes virus types in less than 2 hours!</title>
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    <description>Mobidiag, a Finnish company, has just released a new polymerase chain reaction (PCR)test that can identify all types of herpes virus at the same time in 2 hours. 
PCR tests are known for their sensitivity and accurate results.
This test is very cost effective and should make herpes tests more readily available in hospitals.
More information at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mobidiag.com/products_herpes.asp&quot;&gt;http://www.mobidiag.com/products_herpes.asp
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    <title>Mar 26, Herpes Wise Book Reviewed</title>
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    <description>Herpes Wise Book reviewed: What it can do for you. Why I like it and what is missing.</description>
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    <title>Mar 22, Herpes and Genital Herpes Books Reviewed</title>
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    <description>You&#39;ll find here quick reviews of herpes books I&#39;ve read. I try and give you the best feedback I can on each of them and what information they can bring you.</description>
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    <title>Mar 18, Clear Cold Sores Fast With Nano Technology</title>
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    <description>Encouraging findings at NanoBio Corporation in their phase 2b study of NB-001, a topical lotion to treat herpes labialis (cold sores). The randomized, double-blind, vehicle- controlled study demonstrated clear efficacy and safety in 482 patients.

NanoBio&#39;s uniquely formulated lotion resulted in faster healing of cold sores, at a rate never seen before by a topical product. The company&#39;s targeted phase 3 dose demonstrated highly statistically significant clinical efficacy in phase 2b at a magnitude comparable with or superior to what has been reported for the leading oral (systemic) anti-herpetic drugs on the market today.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 17
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    <title>Mar 18, Your Genes May Be a Herpes Cure!</title>
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    <description>Its not just your eyes, ears or noses which are governed by genetics. Scientists have discovered that genes may be responsible for an increased susceptibility to HSV or the Herpes Simplex Virus. Researches at the Utah School of Medicine&#39;s Division of Infectious Diseases have identified region on the long arm of human chromosome 21 with high odds--at least 1,000-to-1--of being linked to cold sore susceptibility. The researchers further say they pinpointed six specific genes in that chromosomal region as candidates for making people prone to outbreaks of cold sores (also called &quot;fever blisters&quot;). Cold sores occur when the herpes virus reactivates from its inactive state within the nerve, infecting the lip, nose, or face. 
This discovery is a breakthrough in the eternal fight against Herpes. As John D Krisel MD pointed out &quot;One or more of these genes might make excellent targets for new drugs to reduce the number of herpes outbreaks, 
These studies were conducted using linkage analysis. 
The researches traced genetic markers in families to identify regions on chromosomes that harbor disease genes. When genetic mutations are passed from parent to offspring, genetic markers near the disease gene are passed along as well. By identifying markers shared among family members, researchers can locate regions of chromosomes where genes responsible for disease may lie.

Source : University of Utah Health Sciences (2008, January 31). Genetic Link To Human Herpes</description>
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    <title>Mar 17, Why You Should Be Very Afraid to Become Pregant?</title>
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    <description>The answer is ...
The Mothers Act (S. 1375: Mom&#39;s Opportunity to Access Health, Education, Research, and Support for Postpartum Depression Act) ((http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtex...) has the net affect of reclassifying the natural process of pregnancy and birth as a mental disorder that requires the use of unproven and extremely dangerous psychotropic medications (which can also easily harm the child). Urgent consumer action is needed to stop this atrocity, as the Senate could now vote any day.

Source : &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.naturalnews.com/022853.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.naturalnews.com/022853.html&lt;/a&gt;

My comment : Did you know that st John&#39;s wort has been proven to treat light to severe depression? It is even prescribed in several European countries as a treatment for depression. 

Do you think this act will let you choose what you do with your body? Will you trust your doctor who tells you that you should take chemical drugs that are likely to make your unborn child a &quot;drug addict&quot;. English is so right no to make the difference between recreational drugs and medical drugs. 

My kind words to all American mothers to be. Don&#39;t trust your psychologist. Stay away from chemical drugs as much as you can and if you can&#39;t give St John&#39;s Wort a try before you jump right into taking addictive chemicals.

Love,

Nathalie Foy</description>
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    <title>Mar 13, Breakthrough: The link between Herpes Virus and high blood pressure during pregnancy</title>
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    <description>For the first time in the history of mankind, the scientists at Adelaides Womens and Childrens Hospital and the University of Adelaide, Australia have discovered the link between viral infection and high blood pressure during pregnancy and pre-term birth.
These researches have proved that exposure to Herpes virus may be a major cause of pregnancy induced hypertensive disease or pre-eclampsia as it is more popularly known.
 The cause of pregnancy induced hypertension (high blood pressure) has been a mystery for scientists world wide. This research has demonstrated a link between the viruses such as Herpes and pre-eclampsia. Pregnancy induced hypertension occurs in about 10 of the first pregnancies in the developed world and is a common cause of death in the developed countries.

University of Adelaide (2008, February 24). Herpes Virus Link To Preterm Birth And High Blood Pressure During Pregnancy
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adelaide.edu.au/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.adelaide.edu.au/&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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    <description>What would make a perfect herpes cure. Why it is so difficult to find it and even more difficult to prove, What to expect and more herpes cure information</description>
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    <title>Mar 11, Herpes Cures</title>
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    <description>Are you looking for herpes cures? Are you desperate to find that unique way to just get rid of herpes or cold sores for ever? Avoid scams! Understand the diffenence between snake oils and real herpes remedies that work.</description>
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    <title>Mar 11, Aspartame and You</title>
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    <description>If you had any doubts about negative aspartame impact on your health, please take a look a these conclusive pictures. 
208 poor rats were fed aspartame for 2 years and 8 months? 
You can see the results here at
http://myaspartameexperiment.com.

I don&#39;t know about you but it makes me wonder about the &quot;FDA approved&quot; seal.

I just know that I took a lot of aspartame while living in the United States and I never felt worse. I go really fat too on these low fat, no sugar foods.</description>
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    <title>Mar 6, Herpes Medication Unable to reduce the risk of HIV infection in people with HSV-2</title>
    <link>http://www.best-herpes-treatments.com/Best-herpes-treatments-blog.html#Herpes-Medication-Unable-to-reduce-the-risk-of-HIV-infection-in-people-with-HSV-2</link>
    <description>Recent studies have suggested that Acyclovir, a general medicine used to treat the commonly found herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2), does not decrease the risk of HIV infection in people infected with HSV-2. The Phase III clinical trial was led by the University of Washington in Seattle, in coordination with the HIV Prevention Trials Network, an international consortium funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in the National Institutes of Health. The earlier researches had indicated that patients infected with HSV-2 are at a greater risk of contracting HIV. Scientists had hoped that due to its ability to suppress Herpes Virus and the associated genital sores and breaks in the skin, acyclovir could reduce the possibility of HIV transmission via sexual intercourse with a HSV-2 infected person. 
Although Acyclovir did not help in the risk reduction of HIV, Dr. Connie Celum, the committee chairperson, indicated that acyclovir did reduce the genital ulcers associated with HSV-2. He also indicated that now the committee will concentrate on researching the factors which make HSV-2 a risk factor for HIV.

My comment: I&#39;m not surprised. I read shortly after a reassuring article saying that it didn&#39;t mean that herpes medication didn&#39;t reduce herpes symptoms or shedding. However I don&#39;t see any other way. 

This study could mean that genital herpes medicines fail to prevent micro-ulcerations caused by very mild herpes symptoms and in other words fail to protect from other STDs. 

This could also contradict the previous findings saying that daily herpes medical treatment did reduce the probability of herpes infection.  If it does, it should logically also have an impact on other STD transmission.

To me the only product that works today is a local ointment. 

I&#39;ll tell all about it in the second edition of 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.herpes-wise.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;herpes book&quot;&gt;Herpes Wise.&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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    <title>Mar 1, Abreva Cold Sore Remedy</title>
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    <description>Abreva cold sore remedy. How great is it? Get an honest and precise answer now.</description>
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    <title>Feb 26, Treat Herpes With Plants from Amazonia</title>
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    <description>If you&#39;re interested in exotic remedies I suggest you take a look at this tropical plant database website. I don&#39;t know about the quality of their products but their website has a lot of interesting information.

I don&#39;t know most of the names mentioned for herpes.
However, Pau d&#39;arco is a very useful plant. As a woman, I&#39;ve experienced great health improvement thanks to the use of Pau d&#39;Arco. It detoxifies the body, helps balance hormones and boosts the immune system.</description>
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    <title>Feb 26, Another Great Article about Chocolate Side Effects</title>
    <link>http://www.best-herpes-treatments.com/Best-herpes-treatments-blog.html#Another-Great-Article-about-Chocolate-Side-Effects</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Did you like my &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.best-herpes-treatments.com/herpes-newsletter.html&quot; title=&quot;Herpes Newsletter&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;newsletter article about Herpes and Chocolate&lt;/a&gt;? This one gives you  further information about the plus and minuses of chocolate and its impact on health.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The more I read about chocolate, the more I feel herpes sufferers should stay away from it, women especially.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Below is an excerpt from the article. You can read the whole article by following its link.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Another possible negative about too much chocolate is that like pistachios, peanuts, walnuts and hazelnuts, it is a food rich in the amino acid arginine. While arginine is great for healing and the relaxing of blood vessels by increasing nitric oxide formation, it also is a major nutrient that Herpes simplex virus uses for replication. Herpes sufferers should avoid arginine foods during outbreaks. Those with other viral diseases might also consider avoidance during outbreaks.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;

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    <title>Nov 29, New Nathalie&#39;s Best HSV Treatment Newsletter Issue</title>
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    <description>In this issue,

Featured Article : Herpes, Women &amp; Chocolate (this concerns men too). Learn why you must stay from chocolate and when

Last Call to Choose the Subject Name of this Newsletter 

New in Best Herpes Treatments : New testimonials. We have received a lot of new testimonials we&#39;ve place all other our website next to herpes remedies or treatment descriptions.

Organic Silica Gel ready for sale:
My favorite source of herpes relief 

We have a Contest Winner :
A lucky lady living in the US will receive a tube organic silica gel soon for FREE. 

Free Herpes Combat Mini-Course
A new free resource to help you cut transmission risks and improve herpes treatment efficacy</description>
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    <title>Nov 27, Dynamiclear Reviews and Testimonials</title>
    <link>http://www.best-herpes-treatments.com/dynamiclear.html</link>
    <description>Dynamiclear is an OTC treatment for herpes outbreaks. We have provided an honest review here based on facts and experience to help you decide whether you want to try it as an herpes ointment.</description>
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    <description>Herpes Dating sites help you get back in the dating scene without the embarassement. Learn more about how you can date with herpes here.</description>
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    <link>http://www.best-herpes-treatments.com/H-Balm.html</link>
    <description>H-Balm is an OTC topical balm for herpes treatment made with organic essential oils. We have provided an honest review here based on facts and experience to help you decide whether you want to try H-balm.</description>
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    <link>http://www.best-herpes-treatments.com/choraphor.html</link>
    <description>Choraphor is an external treatment for herpes outbreaks. We have provided an honest review here based on facts and experience to help you decide whether you want to try it as an herpes ointment.</description>
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    <title>Oct 17, Genital Herpes Pain Relief</title>
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    <description>Genital herpes outbreaks can be very painful. But fortunately there are genital herpes pain relief products, home remedies and techniques that can ease and soothe herpes symptoms fast.</description>
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    <title>Oct 12, Lysine, cold sores and herpes information</title>
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    <description>Does lysine help against herpes? Can it prevent herpes outbreaks? Can it treat cold sores? What is the proper lysine herpes dosage? Find the answers here.</description>
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    <title>Oct 9, Get Rid of Herpes with my Free Herpes Combat Mini-Course</title>
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    <description>Learn How to Get rid of Herpes Faster with this FREE Herpes mini-course which contains 4 easy powerful lessons about herpes treatments and herpes symptoms.</description>
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    <title>Oct 4, Claim your FREE Herpes Combat Mini Course from Nathalie Foy</title>
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    <description>&lt;p&gt;Claim your Free Herpes Combat Mini Course at
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.herpes-wise.com&quot; title=&quot; Herpes Wise e-book: Get rid of herpes naturally&quot;&gt;http://www.herpes-wise.com
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It is a series of 4 great herpes combat lessons that can you reduce transmission risk and contains&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;subscribe&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;a tip that has helped me &lt;strong&gt;cut the number of my herpes outbreaks by 3 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;a simple technique that can &lt;strong&gt;greatly reduce the risk of herpes transmission&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;and much much more in &lt;strong&gt;4 easy lessons&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;I may add a special 5th lesson soon. I&#39;m pretty excited by the material I&#39;ve just released and I&#39;m getting prepared to release the full Herpes combat course that will replace or be added to the main Herpes Wise book in its second edition. The lucky first edition purchasers will get this update for free but after that I will increase the price of my ebook permanently to all new customers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve gained so much experience ever since the first release of Herpes Wise that I know you&#39;ll be thrilled about this new edition. I&#39;m so excited about it. I&#39;m almost jumping around my office. After that if you still experience herpes outbreaks, it means that you didn&#39;t apply the information given in the book.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When I started out. I lacked confidence and a clear understanding of what people who bought my book wanted. Even though, I know from incredible response I got that the first edition of Herpes Wise is great, I can assure you the second will be even more exciting. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have great herpes free day,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your friend,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nathalie&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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    <description>Is DMSO cold sore remedy, safe and effective. Read about my personal experience and research here.</description>
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