@Nrdsb4 sorry for your loss
Check the brain cancer research at Duke University.
60-minutes did a story this year on it!
The Duke protocol is only for certain kinds of brain tumors. I know someone whose sone is in the Duke program.
My friend’s daughter had a stage 4 glioblastoma. They removed it surgically. Another tumor showed up in her brain stem. They radiated it and it seemed to magically disappear. Another one showed up, completely entangled in her brain stem and around her spinal cord. No way to treat that. That one took her life very quickly.
HIV-positive people are at a greater risk of developing cancers, including brain tumors. Not a disease I would wish upon anyone.
Nrdsb, so sorry.
Apparently Charlie Sheen isn’t the only one who hasn’t read the memo about STDs. The CDC is reporting that “cases of three nationally notifiable STDs – chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis – have increased for the first time since 2006.”
http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/2015/std-surveillance-report-press-release.html
Just as a note of caution (and I haven’t read the study so this is a general statement), we have to remember that just because there is an uptick in counted cases doesn’t necessarily mean there’s an actual uptick in cases. It just means more people know they have it.
With the expansion of insurance, it’s not surprising that we’ve seen the rates of many things go up in the last few years. More people have a way into the system and are being diagnosed with x, y, and z. This is especially true for illnesses that have no symptoms like many STIs.
I’m not in anyway saying that’s what’s going on here, it’s just more of a caution when reports like this come out.
I have not read the report either and I generally agree with you, Romani, but… If this report dealt STI like HPV, I would have attributed the uptick to better tests and better availability of said tests. HPV testing became almost routine in some places. However, this report deals with three major STDs: syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia. A person is unlikely to be routinely tested for these diseases unless there are some symptoms or unless the person is super high risk (having unprotected sex a la Charlie Sheen). Not very likely that better access to healthcare reaulted in such a huge IMO uptick in reported syphilis cases compared to last year.
Like I said I haven’t read it 
It was just a general statement because there have been a few reports cross my radar of increases in x y or z but are really just from more surveilence.
Working in sexual health though I am interested and will look at it when I get home. It seems extremely important.