Read more herpes stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/22223/herpes.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:49:46 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/50528/jay-z-chris-brown-is-a-dead-man-walking.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGlimpses into the crazy world of Rihanna and Chris Brown continue to trickle out. The latest tidbits from their pre-Grammy drama: Jay-Z, who discovered Rihanna, is enraged, says a source. “Chris is a walking dead man.” One rumor claims Rihanna caught herpes from Jay-Z and passed it on to Chris,...http://www.newser.com/story/50528/jay-z-chris-brown-is-a-dead-man-walking.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Feb 2009 9:23:45 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44596/cold-sore-drugs-could-treat-alzheimers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBritish researchers have firmed up a link between cold sores and Alzheimer's disease, the Times of London reports. The virus behind the sores apparently helped cause Alzheimer's in 60% of cases studied, which may mean that common antiviral drugs can stop the disease. “If we are right, there is a...http://www.newser.com/story/44596/cold-sore-drugs-could-treat-alzheimers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 06 Dec 2008 16:13:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/39217/herpes-linked-to-brain-cancer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCancer researchers are finally taking seriously a young surgeon’s decade-long hunch that brain tumors are linked to a strain of herpes that lies dormant in 80% of Americans. The physician speculated that brain cancer patients—many of them affluent and educated—were more vulnerable to common viruses such as the...http://www.newser.com/story/39217/herpes-linked-to-brain-cancer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 06 Oct 2008 7:40:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/29630/sex-in-the-city-26-of-new-yorkers-have-herpes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSex in the Big Apple comes with a higher risk of herpes than the national average, the New York Post reports. A full 26% of the city's inhabitants carry the virus that causes genital herpes. The condition only manifests itself in 15% of carriers but health officials warn that herpes...http://www.newser.com/story/29630/sex-in-the-city-26-of-new-yorkers-have-herpes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Jun 2008 4:47:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/18198/treating-herpes-fails-to-cut-hiv-rate.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn eagerly anticipated HIV study returned disappointing results yesterday, crushing scientists' hopes that targeting the genital herpes virus could help reduce the transmission of HIV. Although the reasoning seemed sound—having herpes boosts a person's contraction risk nearly threefold, so targeting herpes should combat HIV infection—the study found no...http://www.newser.com/story/18198/treating-herpes-fails-to-cut-hiv-rate.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 05 Feb 2008 11:01:48 CST