October 22, 1982 (vol. 93, iss. 38) • Page Image 3
…,.. .. , , . -.. . m.. w - - ~ ~-- -~ S Sexual diseases spread as' baby boom grows U CHICAGO (UPI) - Assistant Health Secretary Edward Brandt Jr. yester- day urged doctors to' help combat sexually transmitted diseases (STD),. the "epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s" which cost at least $2 billion yearly to tteat. Brandt urged physicians to become m~ore aggressive about screening and treating patients. "THE epidemiologic features of sexually tr...…