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Continued from page 34 – Sex Diseases Tripled in Men 40
or Older Taking Viagra, Cialis,
accounted for 4 percent. “Old folks can contract STDs
and we need to be vigilant about it,” Jena said.
The researchers looked at health insurance claims from
44 large U.S. employers from 1997, one year before
Viagra was introduced, through 2006. They examined
the claims of men over the age of 40 to see if they were
prescribed erectile dysfunction drugs, finding 33,968
who used the impotence pills and about 1.38 million
who did not.
The research found that in 2006, 3.6 percent of the men
used Viagra from New York-based Pfizer; 1.7 percent
took Cialis from Indianapolis-based Lilly, and 1
percent were getting Levitra from Leverkusen,
Germany-based Bayer.
Sexual Behavior Unknown
The authors weren’t able to determine how many of the
men were married and how many were heterosexual or
other information on sexual behavior.
In the year before taking the pills, users of ED drugs
had an overall STD rate of 214 per 100,000 people, the
study found. That gave them a 2.8 times greater risk of
developing a sexually spread infection than men who
didn’t take the drugs. That decreased slightly in the
year after, when pill-takers had a 2.65 times higher risk
than non-takers, the study showed.
The risk of getting HIV in the year before taking the
pills was 3.32 times higher in drug-takers and 3.19
times greater in the year after, compared with those not
taking the pills, they said. Users of the medicines also
had higher rates of chlamydia.
Seeking Treatment
The rates of HIV may be higher than other infections
because the men seek treatment from their doctor for
HIV symptoms like fever and weight loss, Jena said.
Men may go to free clinics to treat other sexually
transmitted diseases like herpes and gonorrhea, he said.
An editorial accompanying the research article, entitled
“Life Begins at Forty,” urged doctors to advise older
patients to remember safe-sex precautions if they ask
for erectile dysfunction drugs. “STD counseling should
not stop at age 40,” said the editorial written by
Thomas Fekete, professor of medicine at Temple
University in Philadelphia.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-05/sex-diseasesare-higher-in-over-40-men-on-viagra-cialis-to-boostpotency.html
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125 Priests, Lay Clergy
involved in Sex Abuse Cases
By Sabir Shah
September 20, 2011
In July 2011, Pope Benedict XVI had publicly expressed
his shame over the evils of clerical child abuse during a
visit to Australia, saying he was deeply sorry for the
abuse of children by predatory priests, and now in
September 2011, just two months after the Pontiff s
eyebrow-raising statement, a former Aussie priest has
been charged with 60 fresh offences relating to sex
assaults on boys while he was working at a Sydney
boarding school during the 1970s and 80s.
Interestingly, as an in-depth research conducted by The
News International on this subject shows, this particular
incident has surfaced hardly four months after the
Vatican had issued guidelines for bishops worldwide on
May 16, 2011, whereby they were directed to develop
clear and coordinated procedures for dealing with the
sexual abuse allegations by May 2012 and cooperate with
the police in investigating allegations of sexual abuse by
the clergy, though they were asked not make such
reporting mandatory. (Reference: The New York Times
edition of May 16, 2011).
This is what the Agence France-Presse (AFP) had
reported on the latest Sydney incident: Police would not
confirm the identity of the man, saying only that they had
arrested a 65-year-old on Tuesday (September 13) in
southwestern Sydney and that he has since been released
on bail.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) said the
suspect was a former Catholic priest who taught at the
prestigious St Stanislaus College in Bathurst, west of
Sydney, in the 1970s and 80s.
The college, according to the Paris-based AFP, had made
headlines last month after former students came forward
alleging they were molested during late-night prayer
sessions.
The AFP had further stated in its afore-cited report:
The former priest has already appeared in Bathurst Local
Court in August on 33 other charges relating to sexual
assault and gross acts of indecency on juveniles aged
between 10 and 18. Reports said his court appearance
prompted eight more alleged victims to make further
allegations against the former cleric.
A latest September 15, 2011 report carried by the web
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