Sexual Health & STDs: Medications

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Tinidazole
Drug
06/05/07, Healthwise
A medicine similar to tinidazole has caused cancer in laboratory animals. It is not known if tinidazole would have the same effect in animals, or in humans. Talk with your doctor about your specific cancer risk.
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Abnormal Pap Test - Medications
Article
01/12/07, Healthwise
Medications may cure a bacterial, fungal, or protozoal infection and allow minor cell changes called atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASC-US) that have caused an abnormal Pap test to return to normal. HPV
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Warts and Plantar Warts - Medications
Article
10/20/06, Healthwise
Most warts do not need to be treated. They generally go away on their own within months or years.2 This may be because, with time, your immune system is able to destroy the human papillomavirus that causes warts.
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Treating Bacterial Vaginosis
Article
01/01/03, PDR.net
Despite the fact that bacterial vaginosis (known as BV) accounts for 40 percent of all vaginitis-related office visits, this common disorder is still not well understood. Indeed, as researchers have attempted to sort out the causes, it has been rena
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Trichloroacetic acid or bichloroacetic acid for genital warts (human papillomavirus)
Article
08/17/06, Healthwise
Trichloroacetic acid (TCA) and bichloroacetic acid (BCA) kill genital warts by destroying the proteins in the cells. TCA and BCA also can destroy normal cells, which is why careful application is needed.
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Interferon for genital warts (human papillomavirus)
Article
08/17/06, Healthwise
Interferon can kill viruses and prevent them from reproducing. It also stimulates the body's immune system to fight viruses, including the human papillomavirus (HPV) that causes genital warts.
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Fluorouracil (5-FU) for genital warts (human papillomavirus)
Article
08/17/06, Healthwise
Fluorouracil prevents human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes genital warts, from reproducing.
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Podophyllin resin or podofilox for genital warts (human papillomavirus)
Article
08/17/06, Healthwise
Podophyllin resin and podofilox lotion or gel remove genital warts by stopping cell growth.
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Imiquimod
Article
08/17/06, Healthwise
Imiquimod is thought to work by helping the body's immune system produce interferon and similar substances that attack abnormal cells, viruses, and cancerous cells.
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Genital Warts (Human Papillomavirus) - Medications
Article
08/17/06, Healthwise
Medicine may be used to destroy bothersome genital warts, relieve your symptoms, and reduce the amount of area affected by warts, particularly when the warts are:
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