December 3, 2015 Maternal mortality declining but still above goal Maternal mortality rates have dropped substantially over the past quarter century but still are not declining fast enough to meet ambitious international goals for eradicating deaths during childbirth, a recent study suggests.
December 3, 2015 Conflict-hit women need more reproductive, sexual health aid, UN says Around a quarter of the 100 million people globally who need humanitarian aid are women or teenage girls of childbearing age, but sexual and reproductive health services are underfunded, a United Nations agency said on Thursday.
December 2, 2015 Parental monitoring tied to less risky sexual behaviors in teens In a recent study, watchful parents had teens who engaged in fewer risky sexual behaviors.
December 1, 2015 Anti-HIV pill, taken as needed, prevents infection in gay men The odds of getting HIV can be dramatically reduced by taking two pills prior to sex and two more after, according to a new study of 400 high-risk gay men and transgendered women published online by the New England Journal of Medicine in conjunction with World AIDS Day.
December 1, 2015 On World AIDS Day, condom maker calls for safe-sex emoticon Time for an official safe-sex emoji?
December 1, 2015 Certain birth defects linked to abuse of infants and toddlers Babies with certain birth defects are much more likely to be abused as infants and toddlers than other young children, a U.S. study suggests.
December 1, 2015 The morning habit that boosts your libido big time What if there was a way that you could have more and better sex—and all it would take is a few minutes a day?
November 30, 2015 Misleading HPV vaccine websites are easy to find Parents who go online to find out about the vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted disease that causes cervical cancer, may have a hard time finding accurate information, a recent U.S. study suggests.
November 24, 2015 Almost 16 million on HIV treatment as AIDS pandemic tide turns Some 15.8 million people worldwide are now on HIV treatment and a fast-track strategy to end the AIDS pandemic is starting to show results, the United Nations AIDS program said on Tuesday.
November 20, 2015 Depression linked to erectile dysfunction in sleep apnea patients Depression and low quality of life may contribute to erectile dysfunction in men with sleep apnea, a Korean study suggests.