1. 3 Jan


    Advice to live by: “Condoms can reduce the spread of STDs, but ain’t no prophylactic can staunch the spread of lies.” Our new advice columnist, Starshine Roshell, is kicking things off today at TheWeek.com. Her first (really tough) question: How do I tell my crush I have herpes?

    Advice to live by: “Condoms can reduce the spread of STDs, but ain’t no prophylactic can staunch the spread of lies.”

    Our new advice columnist, Starshine Roshell, is kicking things off today at TheWeek.com. Her first (really tough) question: How do I tell my crush I have herpes?

     

  2. 10 Nov


    Diagnosing STDs with your phone is now a real possibility. To encourage more young people to get tested for STDs, British health officials have developed a private, high-tech way to let them test themselves. It involves a computer, a chip, and a urine or saliva sample. Users would place a urine or saliva sample on a small, disposable (thank God it wouldn’t be reusable) chip that would retail for a buck or two. The chips be sold at nightclubs, drug stores and pharmacies (kind of like condoms), and would be inserted into a phone or computer which would then test it for a range of infections and pop out results within minutes. Weird. “Seriously, we could not make this stuff up if we tried.” Photo credit: CC BY Marco Arment

    Diagnosing STDs with your phone is now a real possibility.

    To encourage more young people to get tested for STDs, British health officials have developed a private, high-tech way to let them test themselves. It involves a computer, a chip, and a urine or saliva sample.

    Users would place a urine or saliva sample on a small, disposable (thank God it wouldn’t be reusable) chip that would retail for a buck or two. The chips be sold at nightclubs, drug stores and pharmacies (kind of like condoms), and would be inserted into a phone or computer which would then test it for a range of infections and pop out results within minutes. Weird.

    “Seriously, we could not make this stuff up if we tried.”

    Photo credit: CC BY Marco Arment