‘Our children are over-sexualized and under-sexually educated’
Until this year, fifth- and sixth-graders in Newark learned about sex by watching a half-hour videotape. Then, after a question-and-answer session with the school nurse, the students were on their way to adulthood.
Today, though, with lustiness streaming from every TV set and spam e-mail championing “male enhancement” to indiscriminate […]
Palatin Technologies, Inc. (Amex: PTN) and King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE: KG) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has scheduled an End-of-Phase 2 meeting to discuss clinical study results with bremelanotide for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED). Palatin Technologies submitted a meeting request to FDA in May 2007; FDA has scheduled […]
Find out if you’re at risk of sexual side effects after cancer treatment and which cancer treatments can cause these side effects.
Treatment for certain cancers can affect your sexuality, causing a range of signs and symptoms that can make sex with your partner more difficult. But that doesn’t mean you can’t have a healthy sex […]
Reported diagnoses of HIV-AIDS rose 17 percent among U.S. women from 2001 to 2005, and the virus is the the leading cause of death for African American women aged 25 to 34. Here’s why and what we can do about it.
In 1989, when a South Carolina hospital offered free tube tying for low-income women, Juanita […]
A Japanese guest on the panel of KBS’ “Global Talk Show” was apparently telling the truth in her explosive revelation that she suffered sexual advances from a Korean college lecturer here. The lecturer admitted everything on Tuesday and resigned. “Global Talk Show” deals with Korea as seen through the eyes of 16 foreign women living […]
Patients right across the North West are to benefit from the next round in the drive to find extra GPs. Health Minister Andy Burnham announced the next five areas that will benefit from the programme which will help around 55,000 thousand patients get easier access to family doctors and sexual health clinics.
The new services expected […]
Women hiding menopausal symptoms
Results from an online survey on www.menopausematters.co.uk recently published in Menopause International have shown that many women are suffering from the menopausal problems of vaginal dryness and painful intercourse (dyspareunia) yet very few are asking health professionals for advice, even though very effective treatments are available.
The survey, which received over 1,000 replies, […]
When used to prevent prostate cancer, finasteride (Proscar, Fincar) has little effect on sexual function, according to results of the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT), published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Previous research has suggested an increase in sexual dysfunction associated with finasteride use. But, according to PCPT investigator Dr. Carol M. […]
A vaccination programme to protect against cervical cancer has raised fears it could encourage risky teenage sex. Health Correspondent Claire Regan looks at the moral arguments
Cervical cancer is a devastating disease that is second only to breast cancer in the number of younger women it kills.
More than 3,000 women across the UK, mostly aged 15 […]
Sharon Osbourne hopes Josh Homme catches syphilis after the Queens Of The Stone Age frontman blasted her and husband Ozzy for treating bands like “s**t” at their annual Ozzfest festival.
The rock matriarch took exception to Homme’s recent comment, made following his experiences on the 2000 leg of the touring event.
When recently asked by U.S. magazine […]
