Doctors Are Failing Their Gay Patients
Jan 14, 2018 Many physicians either missed the class that dealt with sexual health questions, or their lack of attention to the subject is a conscious choice.VIDEO: John Oliver Makes the Star-Studded Sex Ed Video You’ll All Wish You’d Seen as Teens
Aug 10, 2015 Sexual education is extremely important, and yet a lack of standardization means that schoolchildren all over the country receive very different information, some of which is false and a lot of which includes shaming kids (mainly girls) who have had or want to have sex.
In Yet Another Medical Breakthrough, Cuba Takes a Huge Step Toward Eradicating AIDS
Jul 14, 2015 After we learned that the island nation has had a cancer-suppressing vaccine for several years, it seemed impossible the country could have achieved another medical milestone -- until the World Health Organization announced that Cuba had become the "first country to eliminate the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mother to baby."
Rise in STDs Attributed Almost Entirely to Males
Jan 11, 2014 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found an 11 percent rise in syphilis and a 4 percent increase in gonorrhea cases in 2012 in the U.S. But what does the XY chromosome have to do with these sexually transmitted diseases?
Bill Gates Will Pay You as Much as $1 Million for a Better Condom
Mar 23, 2013 Condoms are cheap and effective, but they also diminish sexual pleasure, and that gets in the way of lifesaving.
Gonorrhea Nears Complete Drug Resistance
Aug 11, 2012 Gonorrhea is showing resistance to all but one antibiotic drug used against it, U.S. health officials announced this week.
Condom Crackdown Subverts HIV Prevention Efforts
Jul 19, 2012 Women who carry around condoms -- including sex workers who use them to protect themselves from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases -- are being criminalized in cities across the United States, as police agencies view possession of prophylactics as evidence of prostitution.
Gonorrhea ‘Superbugs’ Tearing Path Across the Globe
Jun 6, 2012 Drug-resistant strains of gonorrhea, including one reported in Japan in 2008, have spread to countries around the world, infecting more than 100 million people a year, in part because symptoms have become harder to detect, the World Health Organization says.
CDC Urges ‘Boomers’ to Get Tested for Hep C Infection
May 20, 2012 Did you know? May 19 is “National Hepatitis Testing Day” and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that all baby boomers, the group believed to account for 75 percent of hepatitis C infections in the United States, get checked.
Not Everyone’s Doing It and That’s a Good Thing, Health Department Says
May 2, 2012 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services lists the Heritage Keepers Abstinence Education, a pro-abstinence program aimed at middle and high schoolers, as one of almost three dozen "evidenced-based" sex education programs that qualify as effective in preventing teenage pregnancy.
