Herpes News

Aug 24, Herpes vaccine or herpes treatment?

Published on 2010-08-24 08:01:54

California based drug company Vical has been heralding the initial success of a novel herpes vaccine, Vaxfectin. In clinical trials involving mice and guinea pigs, the vaccine was found to reduce the rate of recurrence of HSV-2 lesions in both primary and latent infection sites. Unlike other vaccine trials, this particular vaccine seems to be aimed at controlling the herpes virus once a body has been infected and is not an anti-herpes inoculation. The research was headed by Professor David Koe

Aug 21, Herpes as a Stress Vaccine!

Published on 2010-08-21 08:33:45

Unorthodox researcher Robert Sapolsky recently featured in Wired magazine (also online) after examining the role of stress in humans and primates and in particular how stress can and does affect the immune system and mans ability to recover from trauma and illness. Long-term stress has been proven to promote herpes symptoms and many herpes sufferers have told me their outbreaks were a major cause of stress. That is why I smiled when I first read this news. Indeed, the funny thing about this new

Aug 20, Herpes &Sex: being over fifty does NOT protect you from herpes or STIs!

Published on 2010-08-20 06:55:09

You may imagine that all my correspondents are teenagers or thrusting young twenty or thirty-somethings. And you could not be more wrong. Theres a big, unspoken taboo in todays society that is sex among the over-fifties. A bit like teenagers, over fifties are reluctant to talk about their sex lives and when you think about magazine articles, TV Soaps and movies, its hardly surprising. Over fifties are stereotyped as grandfathers, grandmothers, maiden aunts and drooling residents of social c