 All patients presenting with glandular fever-like symptoms should be tested for HIV, say UK researchers. |
 GPs have been advised to switch patients from contraceptive patches and vaginal rings as a study shows they double the risk of venous thrombosis in women when compared with oral contraception. |
 Parts of the national chlamydia and gonorrhoea screening programme for 15 to 24-year-olds are being scrapped locally after NHS managers blamed ‘Government cuts’. |
 The life expectancy of people with HIV has increased by 15 years thanks to improved treatments over the past 13 years, a University of Bristol study has found. |
 MDU medicolegal adviser Dr Beverley Ward explains the legal position on consent and confidentiality, concerning an under-16's script for the Pill. |
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Dr Andy Jordan discusses the difference between papules and viral warts on the penis |
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Sexual medicine consultant Professor Alan Riley covers both sexes in his guide to this heartsink symptom |
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This guide by Dr Sebastian Kalwij will help your practice to implement chlamydia screening, which can provide a steady extra income stream |
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 Giving girls the Pill over the counter isn’t the scandal here, writes Dr Fiona Cornish, it’s the fact that GPs haven’t given pharmacists that opportunity before. |
 Arguments about health tourism held no water, Dr Ewen Stewart writes, so thank goodness everyone's got access to free HIV treatment now |
 GPs are in a unique position to help protect women’s health, write RCGP clinical champions Dr Alex Sohal and Professor Gene Feder |